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Quote from: Freepik on February 12, 2016, 06:04

Quote from: sharpshot on February 12, 2016, 05:12

Freepik, please answer my questions.  Why should it be up to us to find the images that are being downloaded thousands of times without the copyright holders consent?  By the time these images are found, the person that originally made that image might of already lost a substantial amount of earnings.  Please tell us how you are going to go through all your images, identify all the ones that are being used without consent and fully compensate the copyright holder.  Then there's the problem with your designers making images that are very similar to other people's work instead of doing their own work.  How do you justify that?  Why would any sensible person here want to collaborate with a site that is doing that?

I�m answering you, sharpshot:

We make an exhaustive analysis of the resources created exclusively for us. It isn�t your labor, but ours. We do it, but it�s inevitable that some go unnoticed. This not only happens in Freepik but in all image banks. We are victims of copy in many occasions.

At the moment the the plagiarism is detected, we delete the content immediately. The affected author can contact us ([email protected] or [email protected]). We deeply investigate the case and compensate the author if necessary.

We don�t order similar designs, and if there is any plagiarism is because we have been deceived for the designer.

Really? I would think that if this were true you might have five illustrations on your site. There has been enough "facts" laid out here that you could walk from California to Hawaii on them without getting wet. In the remote chance that you are trying to be sincere (as opposed to dodging a problem you really refuse to address) then your systems are horrible.  I hope Shutterstock takes a real hard look at your model and realizes what they are really supporting. NO MATTER how you slice it, whether it's intentional or not, your model breeds copyright violation big time.