Quote from: click_click on August 03, 2010, 16:59

Quote from: Dreamframer on August 03, 2010, 16:55

... That's how it usually goes. Old stuff still sells - new stuff gets buried...

Don't say that. It makes it look like as if there is no more money in microstock 

lol
Ok, well, it's not exactly like this...always, but often it is.

That's true 

I definitely dont want to hijack this thread, can i chime in with a question about one of my pics please? I never used this Flickr thing, probably never will and im not sure how it all works.
I also found one of my pictures there (the magic book) with another one just slammed on top and was wondering if something like this is considered legal use? "All rights reserved" is a bit vague (think i need some education too  )
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67824406@N00/4559439540/#sizes/o/
(nice piece of photoshopping too, dontcha think?  )

I don't care about etiquette in such situations. I dare to assume that this image wasn't purchased to be a composite of that caliber.

I'd definitely contact the member asking where they purchased it from.

This should quickly resolve your issue.

Send that message twice if you don't get a response.

If no response after second time contact Yahoo with a DMCA notice - done.

Please don't take this as legal advise. This is how I do things and so far I've never found one user who did purchase the image.
Maybe this would be the first time, who knows. I'd give it a shot.

Thanks for hijacking, as this is for educational purposes!

I found this through tineye

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doingmediastudies/4684752486/#

Please follow up. It says copyright Shutterstock.

This is redistributing the image completely free. I could save it to my computer right now and spread it, in random free torrents all over the web.

 For my part, I would contact Shutterstock, saying that one of their buyers is actually spreading their collection for free all over the internet. He/she even enter this image in a contest ... omg sigh

Thanks A LOT click_click, for the advice and for finding that 2nd one (its really huge and definitely not ok!)!
For that first, erm..masterpiece; IF she bought my picture it would be legally ok you think? I'm a bit bothered by the download thing...
I fully agree Vonkara! I'll be contacting them both and that big version better be taken off quickly.
Sometimes it really feels like selling stock equals making your pictures public domain

ETA: i see this "doingmediastudies" has a lot of stock pictures posted at the same huge format. Anyone selling pics with books in them better check.

First things first: Contact the Flickr member first and ask in a polite manner where they obtained the image.

You can do it two ways. Either you identify yourself as the copyright owner or you act like as if you want the image as well and maybe you get a link where they took your image from.
You may hit two birds with one stone this way.

Once this is settled you know what to do.

In IS, they say:

For clarity, you may not use the Content in products for resale, license or other distribution, unless (i) the proposed use is allowable under an Extended License which is available for the Content; or (ii) if the original Content has been fundamentally modified or transformed sufficiently that it constitutes an original work entitling the author or artist to copyright protection under applicable law, and where the primary value of such transformed or derivative work is not recognizable as the Content nor is the Content capable of being downloaded, extracted or accessed by a third party as a stand-alone file (satisfaction of these conditions will constitute the work as a �Permitted Derivative Work� for the purposes of this Agreement)

I underlined the text above because it is always a question: what is 'fundamentally modified or transformed"? It seems a very subjective matter. The background used in another thread seems a valid usage to me (the original image can not be extracted), but in the examples here I am not so sure.

"theblackhauke" just replied to me that she found the image on Bing; she offered to credit me or take the image offline; i'll reply i prefer the last option.
Bing led me to 'the Asbury church' website where there's another huge version of the image ready for take. Mailed them too.
You were right click_click, two birds with one stone
Any news on your stolen images click_click? Did you send a DMCA notice?

ETA: they're gone, 1 down 2 to go.

Yep, the one on flickr is gone. Nice work!
Love your avatar, by the way!

I have a question...  I buy images from DT and SS all the time for use on my blog and blogs of my clients.  I never claim copyright on the images because they aren't mine, but anyone can get them off my web site by right-click save or just doing a screen capture (since I buy XS web size).  I haven't been making a habit of adding an attribute to each image used, but I do put links on my "about" page to all of the artists portfolio whose images I've purchased (with my affiliate code, of course .

Other than implementing some sort of "right-click" protection, anything else I should be doing?

The sad thing is the only ones you know were stolen are the ones tineye has found so far. As time progresses and tineye has crawled more of the web will we all know how huge the problem really has gotten.

Quote from: lefty on August 04, 2010, 09:24

Soon, if stock agencies not careful, many of our work will be free on cd for sales on ebay or download free torrent like porn movie and movie problem.

That's the case already. But what will they do with it? Music and movies you can enjoy in private, but using an image on the web is a public thing. If people are spreading their images over many agencies, how anybody can prove that it wasn't bought somewhere? The sites won't help you, if you're not exclusive. How could they?

Every time a buyer posts one of those pictures on their website the next person could come along...right click...save as...and use on the next website waiting for the next person to do the same. Some probably use them for those "2000 stock photos for $1.00" cd's depending on the size. That is a little hard to prevent. No telling how many pictures are floating around out there that this has been the case. If you a designer and photographer and buyer, you know that this isn't right but an average everyday person wouldn't.

About the only way a person could know who actually purchased the photo and who didn't was if the stock sites actually provided details about the buyers, but I doubt that will ever happen.

Quote from: FD-regular on August 04, 2010, 09:34

Quote from: lefty on August 04, 2010, 09:24

Soon, if stock agencies not careful, many of our work will be free on cd for sales on ebay or download free torrent like porn movie and movie problem.

That's the case already. But what will they do with it? Music and movies you can enjoy in private, but using an image on the web is a public thing. If people are spreading their images over many agencies, how anybody can prove that it wasn't bought somewhere? The sites won't help you, if you're not exclusive. How could they?

Every time a buyer posts one of those pictures on their website the next person could come along...right click...save as...and use on the next website waiting for the next person to do the same. Some probably use them for those "2000 stock photos for $1.00" cd's depending on the size. That is a little hard to prevent. No telling how many pictures are floating around out there that this has been the case. If you a designer and photographer and buyer, you know that this isn't right but an average everyday person wouldn't.

True! It's amazing how few people seem aware it's not ok to just right-click, save and use for whatever needed. Today at work i was talking about image theft and they all were genuinely surprised. Turns out they're all 'right-clickers', for their websites, for our center magazine etc (not anymore now ). As soon as it's on the net it seems to lose all it's value and becomes 'take what you need'.

I hard about a software or image format that expires once a license is not valid anymore.

The moment they invent some embedded license/usage code, two hours later it's cracked and you will have "image cleaners" around. Look what happened to the WMA format and long ago, to the Region Codes in DVD's. The only ones that suffer are the legal buyers.

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Any news on your stolen images click_click? Did you send a DMCA notice?
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Yep, Yahoo just removed the image from Flickr.

All is well.