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« on: May 13, 2012, 04:44 »
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This person stole my photo and put it in a personal website as his own photo , This Photo is  belong to me &  copyrighted  it's a microstock photo....What can I do ?!! here is the link see maybe more stolen photos for others ..
http://www.sergfoto.spb.ru/


ShadySue

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« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2012, 05:40 »
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As I don't know the language of the site, I'm slightly disadvantaged. I don't see a site's watermark on the version of the pears photo that comes up in the animation.

Is that person claiming copyright on your photo? If so, s/he's in the wrong. If you have any way of knowing which micro site they bought your photo from, let their support department deal with it.

If they are not claiming copyright, but just implying that it's their photo, it may be morally reprehensible, but would not generally be against the terms of use of the micros (this was discussed a month or two ago here  on msg). Again, if you know which site they bought the image from, you could read the terms of usage to see if they're violating that site's terms. I guess you could have a page on your own website/blog/FaceBook/whatever pointing it out. This does appear to be not-uncommon practice, that some so-called photographers set out their site using micro-sourced images. Caveat emptor!

If they're selling your image from their site, that would probably need some sort of extended license, depending again on the site they bought it from.

ShadySue

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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2012, 06:54 »
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Can anyone remember/find the recentish thread about a similar issue (tog's website implying stock images were their own)? I don't seem to be able to find it in the Image Sleuth forum or the Off-topic forum.
Maybe it was on one of the specific agency threads? Or maybe I just 'can't see it for looking for it'.

« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2012, 05:46 »
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Can anyone remember/find the recentish thread about a similar issue (tog's website implying stock images were their own)? I don't seem to be able to find it in the Image Sleuth forum or the Off-topic forum.
Maybe it was on one of the specific agency threads? Or maybe I just 'can't see it for looking for it'.


Here you go Liz.  Regards, David.

http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/a-question-about-legal-use-of-stock-photo-in-portfolio/

ShadySue

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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2012, 11:22 »
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^^ Thanks. I was looking in the wrong forums!  ::)

gillian vann

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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2012, 04:16 »
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send them a long lengthy letter in English via that 3rd link : Kontavctktivos just keep putting the word PEAR in caps and maybe STOCK or the name of the stock agency you think its from. they'll get the idea. plus, we can all translate text thanks to google.

« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2012, 03:18 »
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Thanks a lot guys i'll send to the web page


 

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