Author Topic: Another batch of stock images on Flickr (Read 8792 times)

Digital66 · « **on:** September 05, 2010, 17:46 »

I have just found some portfolios in Flickr with lots of images from different colleages:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/axehd/sets/72157624157202710/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenlightforgirls/sets/72157624854487238/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/impactvisual/sets/72157619873604208/

This is an endless story...

vonkara · « **Reply #1 on:** September 05, 2010, 17:53 »

This is free small and medium sizes... incredible

click_click · « **Reply #2 on:** September 05, 2010, 18:23 »

Good find - thanks for posting it here.

Some images were already removed due to copyright infringement.

Please contact any copyright owner you might recognize to get these Flickr account holders removed.

Please also check this site: http://www.axehd.com/image/index.php

FD · « **Reply #3 on:** September 05, 2010, 21:39 »

http://axehd.com/ tripled its site value and popularity in the past 3 months. They can be phased out easily since they're hosted in the US, although they (he?) operate from an Arab-speaking country. Another "passive income seeker" that took some shortcuts.

madelaide · « **Reply #4 on:** September 05, 2010, 23:10 »

At least three of the images here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45217462@N03/
are by different IS members. I contacted these three members I identified.

vonkara · « **Reply #5 on:** September 06, 2010, 00:07 »

If Istock represent us in front of the buyers, it should be them to deal with their theft buyers IMO. It should be on the Istock forum. I know more than 3 Istock contributors are there...

diego_cervo · « **Reply #6 on:** September 06, 2010, 01:36 »

two of my images are there (the woman in lab clothes).
this is really disappointing!!

Xalanx · « **Reply #7 on:** September 06, 2010, 04:05 »

I have one image there and I sent an email to yahoo copyright department, hope they'll close this guy down.

cathyslife · « **Reply #8 on:** September 06, 2010, 06:43 »

Thanks for posting these links. I will take a look.

FD · « **Reply #9 on:** September 06, 2010, 10:48 »

As a reminder (no pimping intended) : DMCA letter.

Xalanx · « **Reply #10 on:** September 06, 2010, 11:01 »

Quote from: FD-regular on September 06, 2010, 10:48

As a reminder (no pimping intended) : DMCA letter.

Thanx, I will keep this in mind. I already wrote them an email (yahoo), containing approximately the same stuff, except for the "I swear" part.

FD · « **Reply #11 on:** September 06, 2010, 11:05 »

Quote from: Xalanx on September 06, 2010, 11:01

Thanx, I will keep this in mind. I already wrote them an email (yahoo), containing approximately the same stuff, except for the "I swear" part.

I read at several places that this clause is mandatory if you want to invoke the DMCA. Actually, you can find all on Google but I thought I would up some links and docs so nobody should waste time on reinventing the wheel.

click_click · « **Reply #12 on:** September 06, 2010, 11:11 »

I also thought that the "I swear" part is mandatory.

Often the web sites have a list of required information that has to be provided in the DMCA claim.

Using DMCA templates should be fine but read their requirements thoroughly.

Sometimes they switch the order of personal information and other parts of information that you need to provide.

Fotolia for instance is very strict about that.

Fred · « **Reply #13 on:** September 06, 2010, 14:54 »

Quote from: click_click on September 05, 2010, 18:23

Good find - thanks for posting it here.

Some images were already removed due to copyright infringement.

Please contact any copyright owner you might recognize to get these Flickr account holders removed.

Please also check this site: http://www.axehd.com/image/index.php

Sheeeeeeeeeesh! How many copyright violations do you have to have on Flickr before they close your account!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/impactvisual/sets/72157619873604208/

He/She has two already!

fred

madelaide · « **Reply #14 on:** September 06, 2010, 15:18 »

I admit they must wait until verification is completed, but do they ever close an account? The problem is that nothing impedes the infractor from opening a new account with a different email address.

click_click · « **Reply #15 on:** September 06, 2010, 15:21 »

This is why I don't understand why there is no additional disclaimer popping up when uploading an image.

People often don't read the usage agreement, but if every time there is a disclaimer popping up when they upload an image it would be more "in your face" and the people would start learning about it. I'd assume...

Fred · « **Reply #16 on:** September 06, 2010, 16:54 »

If you had an image with a registered copyright put up like that on Flickr I would think you could sue Yahoo for something. Maybe some lawyer would take it on contingency.

fred

click_click · « **Reply #17 on:** September 06, 2010, 17:23 »

Quote from: Fred on September 06, 2010, 16:54

If you had an image with a registered copyright put up like that on Flickr I would think you could sue Yahoo for something. Maybe some lawyer would take it on contingency.

fred

No. There is no way any lawyer is taking such a case on contingency.

If you do find one, send them my way, I can make him/her rich because I have found many places that sell my stuff and my contingency lawyer tried but never achieved anything. The infringing party knows that nothing is going to happen unless this is going into litigation which is costly. I did register copyright btw.

Contingency lawyers want to settle out of court and don't offer a lot of help (that's my experience, yours may differ).

If you have some bad a$$ lawyer that you have to pay for, it may be possible to get some money back when the case goes to court but otherwise there is barely any monetary damage done (that a judge could award) if you find your stuff on Flickr.

Fred · « **Reply #18 on:** September 06, 2010, 19:29 »

Quote from: click_click on September 06, 2010, 17:23

Quote from: Fred on September 06, 2010, 16:54
If you had an image with a registered copyright put up like that on Flickr I would think you could sue Yahoo for something. Maybe some lawyer would take it on contingency.

fred

No. There is no way any lawyer is taking such a case on contingency.

If you do find one, send them my way, I can make him/her rich because I have found many places that sell my stuff and my contingency lawyer tried but never achieved anything. The infringing party knows that nothing is going to happen unless this is going into litigation which is costly. I did register copyright btw.

Contingency lawyers want to settle out of court and don't offer a lot of help (that's my experience, yours may differ).

If you have some bad a$$ lawyer that you have to pay for, it may be possible to get some money back when the case goes to court but otherwise there is barely any monetary damage done (that a judge could award) if you find your stuff on Flickr.

Well, I thought the point of registering the copyright was to allow you to sue for more than monetary damages. Obviously nobody is going to sue if all you can get back is $0.25 or even $28.

fred

click_click · « **Reply #19 on:** September 06, 2010, 20:18 »

There are a bunch of variables coming together when "suing" or trying to get a settlement, starting with where the image was sold.

As a non-exlcusive microstock image, you already start at the bottom of the barrel.

Secondly and most importantly how was the image (ab)used.

If Coca Cola took (stole) your image, using it for a world wide advertising campaign putting it onto any possible medium and surface to advertise their products then you have a good case.

If some humpty dumpty is uploading a medium sized image to Flickr you can consider yourself lucky if Yahoo acknowledges your DMCA claim and removes the image.

I've been getting upset about this in the past but this is the way things go these days.

All this "unfairness" happening makes one wonder if you're sitting on the "right" side of the fence...

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Author Topic: Another batch of stock images on Flickr (Read 8792 times)

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