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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Image Sleuth => Topic started by: ravens on August 14, 2014, 08:18
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What's up with this site freecodesource.com?
It has tons of Shutterstock photos. If you click Download Photo Without Watermark
it directs you to SS, but look at that HTML under the image:
"Display this Stock Photo on your Website or Blog"
and then there's HTML code.
Displaying someone else's SS watermarked photo on your website/blog can't be legal??
Anyone know about this?
See for yourself
http://www.freecodesource.com/stock-photos/210358807--Camera-Flat-Icon-With-Long...-stock-photo.html (http://www.freecodesource.com/stock-photos/210358807--Camera-Flat-Icon-With-Long...-stock-photo.html)
http://www.freecodesource.com/stock-photos/210033592--Closeup-Of-Pictures-A-Kind-Of...-stock-photo.html (http://www.freecodesource.com/stock-photos/210033592--Closeup-Of-Pictures-A-Kind-Of...-stock-photo.html)
(just borrowing random examples)
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Looks like it's a 'partner' site. Someone can save out the watermarked pic as they can from SS itself, but if you click on get an unwatermarked version, you get taken to SS. I suppose freecodesource gets a kickback from SS.
I find these partner sites annoying - iS has them too - but a lot of them seem to be legit.