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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Image Sleuth => Topic started by: kaktus2536 on August 06, 2013, 08:08

Title: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: kaktus2536 on August 06, 2013, 08:08

I found this guy on Fotolia http://us.fotolia.com/p/203970210 (http://us.fotolia.com/p/203970210)
He stealing others illustrations, including my, and creates his own.
I send a message to Fotolia, but after four days no answer yet...
There is some examples:
Original http://us.fotolia.com/id/54015139 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/54015139)
Copy http://us.fotolia.com/id/54860409 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/54860409)
Original (mine) http://us.fotolia.com/id/53047903 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/53047903)
copy http://us.fotolia.com/id/54799597 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/54799597)
Original http://us.fotolia.com/id/38621516 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/38621516)
Copy http://us.fotolia.com/id/54726240 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/54726240)
Original http://us.fotolia.com/id/23815606 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/23815606)
Copy http://us.fotolia.com/id/54904847 (http://us.fotolia.com/id/54904847)
and many others

PS: Sorry for my bad English  ::)

Title: Re: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: munrotoo on August 06, 2013, 08:14

I just found this guy on canstockphoto! http://www.canstockphoto.com/bernmass/ (http://www.canstockphoto.com/bernmass/)
He stole at least one of my friends and put it in his as if he created it.

Title: Re: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: Ron on August 06, 2013, 11:33

Quote from: munrotoo on August 06, 2013, 08:14

I just found this guy on canstockphoto! [url]http://www.canstockphoto.com/bernmass/[/url] ([url]http://www.canstockphoto.com/bernmass/[/url])
He stole at least one of my friends and put it in his as if he created it.

His account is gone on CanStockPhoto

Title: Re: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: CD123 on August 06, 2013, 13:57

Quote from: kaktus2536 on August 06, 2013, 08:08

I found this guy on Fotolia [url]http://us.fotolia.com/p/203970210[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/p/203970210[/url])
He stealing others illustrations, including my, and creates his own.
I send a message to Fotolia, but after four days no answer yet...
There is some examples:
Original [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54015139[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54015139[/url])
Copy [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54860409[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54860409[/url])
Original (mine) [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/53047903[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/53047903[/url])
copy [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54799597[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54799597[/url])
Original [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/38621516[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/38621516[/url])
Copy [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54726240[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54726240[/url])
Original [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/23815606[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/23815606[/url])
Copy [url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54904847[/url] ([url]http://us.fotolia.com/id/54904847[/url])
and many others

PS: Sorry for my bad English  ::)

Just looked at the Halloween one. Without any doubt copied, down to the shadows and fine detail. It is shocking straight forward plagiarism, so I hope Fotolia act as fast on complaints from their own contributors, as they would from external complaints.

Title: Re: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: kaktus2536 on August 06, 2013, 15:29

No reply from Fotolia yet, and he constantly adding more and more stolen content..
I was wondering when this will be solved >:(

Title: Re: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: Roberto on August 06, 2013, 15:39

I hope you respond fast fotolia

Unfortunately there are people who want to make easy money  :(

Title: Re: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: Ron on August 06, 2013, 16:14

Fotolia dont care about copyright issues. I once was told in their forum by their forum moderator that I couldnt use elements of NASA images, and that I better delete all my images before getting into trouble, yet their library is full of it. I reported it, they said they would look into it, but nothing was done about it.

Title: Re: Stolen ilustrations
Post by: kaktus2536 on March 17, 2014, 04:57

Today i found another thief on vectorstock ...
original image:

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http://us.fotolia.com/id/42302727copy

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http://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/views-of-the-sea-vintage-vector-1863954original image:

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http://us.fotolia.com/id/57485401copy

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http://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/cute-pink-valentine-day-background-vector-1792346and much more, his entire portfolio is composed of stolen illustrations that are only slightly modified.