Author Topic: Somebody stole my file and uploaded it to Adobe? (Read 1868 times)

cobalt · « **on:** June 01, 2023, 14:08 »

Somebody stole my file, cropped it and uploaded it to Adobe

Please check if any of your files are affected

stolen image:

https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/happy-wedding-card-landscape/595556550?prev_url=detail

My original image:

https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/elegante-hochzeitseinladung-mit-eheringen-aus-gold-einer-karte-mit-textfreiraum-und-weissen-blumen-copy-space/53811704?prev_url=detail

The "artist"

https://stock.adobe.com/de/contributor/211422029/filip?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

seems to be a new port

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2023, 15:12 »

That's pretty brazen! Thanks for posting - I don't see anything of mine there.

I assume you'll contact Adobe about this (via DMCA notice?).

It isn't just your image either. Google image search found me this iStock image (uploaded in 2016) that the copycat used (with a graphic slapped on top)

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rings-gm502711544-82086545
https://stock.adobe.com/images/happy-wedding/595555028

And this one, different iStock contributor, uploaded in 2015
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wedding-invitation-gm498296378-79573315
https://stock.adobe.com/images/happy-wedding/595480173

This one is cropped and rotated, but comes from a Vecteezy image
https://stock.adobe.com/images/modern-wedding-invitation/596902355?asset_id=596902355
https://www.vecteezy.com/png/10220958-flower-bouquet-watercolor-wedding-flower

I don't think this portfolio should stay online - multiple stolen images from multiple contributors isn't an innocent mistake...

Injustice for all · « **Reply #2 on:** June 01, 2023, 15:16 »

I don't seem to see any of my content,thanks for sharing.

of course it is incredible that today no agency is still able to deal with and solve this problem,perhaps with recognition software or I don't know,with all this technology it is not possible to get rid of these thieves…how is this possible?

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #3 on:** June 01, 2023, 15:33 »

Interestingly, one of the stolen works appears to come from a designer on fiverr - more often a place where we've found stolen stock images & illustrations in the past

https://www.fiverr.com/chatif676/design-wedding-invitation-card-and-any-event-invitation-card
https://stock.adobe.com/images/blue-modern-wedding-day-card-landscape/596877049

And the list goes on and on

https://stockagency.panthermedia.net/m/stock-photos/12054269/zwei-ringe-mit-rose/
https://stock.adobe.com/images/happy-wedding-day-png/595557835

I've suggested many times before that agencies should use Google image search for new portfolios to weed out this sort of theft. It's too expensive to do it all the time but just for the first 100-200 images.

I think the typical stolen work situation is new portfolios looking for some easy cash with no effort, not established portfolios which suddenly turn to the dark side.

And...Adobe's own "Find Similar" feature has your image first in the (huge) list of similars. You'd have to be asleep not to realize this was stolen if you looked at that search result.

cobalt · « **Reply #4 on:** June 01, 2023, 15:47 »

I wrote to Mat, hope he can direct me to what is the proper channel to write too with Adobe.

They really should be checking the first 300 uploads against a google search. There must be a way to automate this.

Or at least against the Adobe collection.

The quicker these ports are closed, the better it is for everyone.

You would think in the time of ai, they would steal images then use them to abusively "inspire" an ai. But I suppose that takes too much work...

ETA:

Jo Ann you are the perfect google detective, thank you!

Also added this thread to some groups on facebook.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #5 on:** June 01, 2023, 19:26 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on June 01, 2023, 15:33

Interestingly, one of the stolen works appears to come from a designer on fiverr - more often a place where we've found stolen stock images & illustrations in the past

https://www.fiverr.com/chatif676/design-wedding-invitation-card-and-any-event-invitation-card
https://stock.adobe.com/images/blue-modern-wedding-day-card-landscape/596877049

And the list goes on and on

https://stockagency.panthermedia.net/m/stock-photos/12054269/zwei-ringe-mit-rose/
https://stock.adobe.com/images/happy-wedding-day-png/595557835

I've suggested many times before that agencies should use Google image search for new portfolios to weed out this sort of theft. It's too expensive to do it all the time but just for the first 100-200 images.

I think the typical stolen work situation is new portfolios looking for some easy cash with no effort, not established portfolios which suddenly turn to the dark side.

And...Adobe's own "Find Similar" feature has your image first in the (huge) list of similars. You'd have to be asleep not to realize this was stolen if you looked at that search result.

exactly,there doesn't really seem to be the intention to do something concrete, but in a certain way it's also strange,because SS also gives "similar content" as a reason for rejection,which makes it doubly absurd and sounds like a joke.