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Stolen images on iStock by "Abdul Bayzid"

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stvagna:
https://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/AbdulBayzid


"Abdul Bayzid": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gender-equality-concept-girl-or-boy-minimal-style-3d-render-background-gm1527906145-524958920
Stolen from "Mariia Polskaia": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gender-party-pregnant-belly-has-a-question-mark-boy-and-girl-in-hand-the-choice-of-gm1301391059-393443865

"Abdul Bayzid": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cassava-cous-cous-cuzcuz-brazilian-food-beckground-photo-gm1519710994-524519085
Stolen from "BrazilPhotos": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/angu-pastel-corn-pastel-brazilian-food-traditional-food-gm1315223412-403254289

"Abdul Bayzid": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/global-network-connection-modern-world-technology-background-gm1522778113-524696464
Stolen from "kentoh": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/world-business-background-gm1060703184-283537964

"Abdul Bayzid": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cassava-cous-cous-cuzcuz-brazilian-food-beckground-photo-gm1519711118-524519108
Stolen from "etitarenko": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/delicious-chocolate-cake-with-fresh-berries-gm179028729-25561493

"Abdul Bayzid": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/health-technology-healthcare-and-medicine-concept-gm1518546555-524430613
Stolen from "matejmo": https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blockchain-technology-structure-defocused-gm953499010-260290079

cobalt:
I postet a link in German groups, so people can check if they are affected and tell istock if any of the stolen images are theirs.

I am surprised that these things still happen. Hopefully with the help of ai, thieves will soon be found more quickly.

Every agency could one day do a port check after the first 100, or 500 uploads and then eliminate the thieves automatically.

Do that for a year and the attempts will go down drastically.

Jo Ann Snover:
Thanks for posting these - have you/are you going to contact iStock about it? Edited to add that I created a support ticket at iStock for this portfolio. Can't hurt to report again even if you already did :)

iStock has zero excuse for this nonsense. In every one of the items you posted - EVERY SINGLE ONE - the first item in the "Similar images" link is the original author's image.

iStock doesn't need any new software at all to catch lazy thieves - they can use their own existing feature and weed this out instantly. Port suspended after the first catch and if there's more than one incident, portfolio closed and user banned.

It's not hard. They just need to give a sh!t

Karen:
Thanks for posting!
iStock should close this thief's portfolio immediately.


--- Quote from: cobalt on July 26, 2023, 08:38 ---I postet a link in German groups, so people can check if they are affected and tell istock if any of the stolen images are theirs.

I am surprised that these things still happen. Hopefully with the help of ai, thieves will soon be found more quickly.

Every agency could one day do a port check after the first 100, or 500 uploads and then eliminate the thieves automatically.

Do that for a year and the attempts will go down drastically.

--- End quote ---

Jo Ann Snover:
The iStock copyright team replied, asking me for image links or numbers so they could investigate. I had already given them a link to this thread. And pointed out that the first "similar" image points to the original for every image I checked.

I replied with 4 more links - the first four images of the 905-image portfolio - all of which are stolen, all from different contributors and told them I wasn't going to do all 905 as I think this set of 5 + 4 links should be adequate. We'll see what happens...

The stolen image is first, the original second in each pair. All original upload dates are earlier than the thief’s upload date

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/health-technology-healthcare-and-medicine-concept-gm1518542373-524430585
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/doctor-shows-global-health-care-gm1220632511-357499797

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/global-network-connection-modern-world-technology-background-gm1522761463-524695705
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/global-network-technology-gm1155359709-314505269

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/health-technology-healthcare-and-medicine-concept-gm1518548681-524430626
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/digital-technology-gm1143201403-306918584

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/health-technology-healthcare-and-medicine-concept-gm1518545504-524430606
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/concept-of-cardiology-and-heart-health-gm684977302-125737733

It looks as though the same person used to have a SS portfolio, but that's already down

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Abdulbayzid

Edited to add that I received another reply from iStock saying that they've removed the images I reported (i.e. the above 4) and are in the process of terminating the relationship with the contributor. The 5 reported by the OP are still there so far. I hope tomorrow morning the whole portfolio will be gone.

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