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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Image Sleuth => Topic started by: cidepix on April 10, 2013, 08:51

Title: I am disgusted at these image thieves..
Post by: cidepix on April 10, 2013, 08:51: my vectors are uploaded by some thief as part of this font..

http://www.dafont.com/zodiac-tfb.font (http://www.dafont.com/zodiac-tfb.font)

what is even more disgusting is that someone is asking permition to use the images and he says: it's fine!

http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/95684/question-about-font-usage (http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/95684/question-about-font-usage)

and the person who asked that question knows it's my image, and sends me an email to let me know they got the permition from the thief and they will use it..

oh, and here is my image:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-5888684-zodiac-star-signs.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-5888684-zodiac-star-signs.php)
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-5888509-colourful-zodiac-star-signs.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-5888509-colourful-zodiac-star-signs.php)
Title: Re: I am disgusted at these image thieves..
Post by: daveh900 on April 10, 2013, 10:29: Ugh. Sorry to see this.

Unfortunately, you have some work ahead of you to get these removed:

http://www.fonts2u.com/zodiac-tfb.font (http://www.fonts2u.com/zodiac-tfb.font)
http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Dingbats/62590/Zodiac_TFB (http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Dingbats/62590/Zodiac_TFB)
http://www.fontsaddict.com/font/zodiac-tfb.html (http://www.fontsaddict.com/font/zodiac-tfb.html)
http://www.fontriver.com/font/zodiac_tfb/ (http://www.fontriver.com/font/zodiac_tfb/)
http://truefonts.blogspot.com/2012/11/zodiac-tfbttf.html (http://truefonts.blogspot.com/2012/11/zodiac-tfbttf.html)
Title: Re: I am disgusted at these image thieves..
Post by: cathyslife on April 10, 2013, 10:54: Wow, that is just wrong. Hope you can put a stop to it.
Title: Re: I am disgusted at these image thieves..
Post by: michaeldb on April 10, 2013, 12:13: This is indeed sad, a new kind of infringement, at least I have not seen it before.

I think dafont is a pretty reputable business, has been around a long time. They seem to be cognizant of IP issues. The infringer has 177 fonts on there. I would email dafont and notify them of the infringement and maybe they will remove all of the guy's fonts. That might serve as a deterrent to other fontographers doing the same sort of thing.
Title: Re: I am disgusted at these image thieves..
Post by: Poncke on April 10, 2013, 14:26: Take it to another level, thousands of images at once.

http://www.gfx4you.com/stock-image-photos/page/198/ (http://www.gfx4you.com/stock-image-photos/page/198/)
Title: Re: I am disgusted at these image thieves..
Post by: tickstock on April 10, 2013, 14:40: .
Title: Re: I am disgusted at these image thieves..
Post by: cathyslife on April 10, 2013, 16:30: Quote from: Poncke on April 10, 2013, 14:26
Take it to another level, thousands of images at once.

[url]http://www.gfx4you.com/stock-image-photos/page/198/[/url] ([url]http://www.gfx4you.com/stock-image-photos/page/198/[/url])

Not only are they thieves but they are idiot thieves...that site says
"Stores Selling free stock images" ::)