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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Image Sleuth => Topic started by: zorba on November 17, 2022, 09:31

Title: 52112.com STOLEN CONTENT OF ALL KINDS
Post by: zorba on November 17, 2022, 09:31
52112.com is selling stolen content without shame. There is content from the best contributors on any major site. But isn't China part of the WTO? So we shouldn't have intentional copyright protections?

samples:
https://www.52112.com/member_u_96_6.html (https://www.52112.com/member_u_96_6.html)

https://www.52112.com/member_u_350_276.html (https://www.52112.com/member_u_350_276.html)

By doing a bit of Googling with google images and your own images I think you can find the results. You cannot start from the home. There seem to be various Chinese who simply download and resell.

These are only TWO very evident samples about content I know, because I love that creators.
Title: Re: 52112.com STOLEN CONTENT OF ALL KINDS
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on November 17, 2022, 11:51
Are you sure it isn't a partner site?
Title: Re: 52112.com STOLEN CONTENT OF ALL KINDS
Post by: Uncle Pete on November 17, 2022, 11:59
Are you sure it isn't a partner site?

I thought that also, but after a little looking, I'd say I'm pretty sure it's not a partner. Did you look?

Well if it is, they are using various assumed names like:
Creator: Jacob Wackerhausen
Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Copyright: Jacob Wackerhausen

Stock photo ID:145151084
Upload date:February 07, 2008

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-of-a-young-woman-looking-shocked-gm145151084-5271516?phrase=jacob%20wackerhausen%20%20%20surprise (https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-of-a-young-woman-looking-shocked-gm145151084-5271516?phrase=jacob%20wackerhausen%20%20%20surprise)

https://www.52112.com/member_h_96_1.html (https://www.52112.com/member_h_96_1.html)

(https://pic.52112.com/180228/180228_117/jVvZPTFooh.jpg)

Maxsupply "I feel very surprised, very strange, very surprised. Can be used as an adjective and a verb. Surprised, amazed."

No watermark at all.
Title: Re: 52112.com STOLEN CONTENT OF ALL KINDS
Post by: Newsfocus1 on November 18, 2022, 07:42
Jacob. Slightly better known by his middle name - Yuri  ;)
Title: Re: 52112.com STOLEN CONTENT OF ALL KINDS
Post by: Uncle Pete on November 18, 2022, 11:32
Jacob. Slightly better known by his middle name - Yuri  ;)

Yes and the first suspicion for me was also partner site, but just dropping in for a minute or less, I saw a flock of Yuri's images and knew that it was stolen content.

Maybe Yuri is big enough to take these people on?

I know that as an individual, any time I go to complain, there's the stonewalling and "only the artist can file a DMCA notice". Well lovely, except that's it's US Copyright Law and who in the rest of the world, where so many countries don't care and don't enforce, is going to do anything about a claim from an artist?

For people who are unhappy with low pay, subscriptions or free sites, this is much worse, as it's plain theft that we can't stop.