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Any limit to rip-offs?

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Allsa:
What would you do if you discovered that someone copied one of your most popular images - and they even copied all of the keywords from your image (his keywords are exactly the same as mine), and the written description was almost exactly the same, too. I get so irritated with these thieves, and the laziness of this thief is especially disgusting, IMO. What would you do in this instance, would you complain to the agency? Would it do any good? Is there no limit to what these idiots can get away with?

madelaide:
This current thread is related:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/what%27s-the-limit-of-stolen-images-to-be-shut-down/msg118109/?topicseen#new

elvinstar:

--- Quote ---What would you do in this instance, would you complain to the agency?
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You can bet everything that you own that I would report it!!  >:(

Don't let them get away with it!

Allsa:

--- Quote from: madelaide on October 05, 2009, 16:23 ---This current thread is related:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/what%27s-the-limit-of-stolen-images-to-be-shut-down/msg118109/?topicseen#new



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This person stole the idea, but not the image itself - if they had stolen the image itself, then I could probably (you would hope) get them kicked off the site. In this case they have stolen several of my ideas, and in at least one instance, they stole all my keywords as well.

I go through a lot of trial and error, trying out new and different ideas, some do well, but many of them sink, that's just the nature of experiments - BUT is it right for some bottom feeder to come along and duplicate my successful images? They take no risks themselves, yet they benefit from my experiments? How can an honest person survive in Microstock?

NitorPhoto:
This happens every second day. Welcome in the club. There is nothing you can do in my opinion.

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