Microstock Photography Forum - General > Image Sleuth
Stolen images.
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Not Today on December 30, 2018, 08:11 ---
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on December 29, 2018, 19:23 ---Thanks for posting these. Small ports with great variety of subjects, styles and locations certainly has all the hallmarks of stolen work.
I didn't see anything of mine, but it'd be good if someone who is an owner can complain to SS so these scumbags can have their portfolios removed. I wish they'd let third party reports be considered (it'd be easy enough for them to check it out if they actually gave a toss...)
--- End quote ---
I think we can.
''If you believe that your copyright to an image on Shutterstock has been infringed upon, or that an image is being misused, please collect all pertinent information (including image ID's, relevant links, etc.) and contact us by email at [email protected]. We take the protection of copyright very seriously and we will investigate all complaints we receive.''
Source: https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/kbat02/000006577?l=en_US&c=ContributorKB%3APortfolio_account&fs=RelatedArticle
Our watch begins :D
--- End quote ---
Just thought I'd mention , I wrote to "compliance" and got the really disappointing reply that others have reported.
Thank you for your email. Our requirements for submitting Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") notices of infringement are below. You may send a proper notice in reply to this email. and a bunch more that indicates, only the owner can file a complaint. In other words, they don't want to know and don't want to investigate.
Hopefully [email protected] is more artist friendly.
cathyslife:
It makes sense that only copyright owners can file DMCAs. But it’s too bad they don’t take emails from anyone reporting stealing more seriously. As has been mentioned in the past, they don’t really seem to care how they make their money. They “say” they take copyrights seriously, but if that were true, they would be shutting down these watermark-removal-from-large-size-images thieves immediately. Look how long that has gone on and still goes on.
eyewave:
I just contacted the original photographer of the grilled meat images - the other two have stolen it. The original is this one: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/succulent-thick-juicy-portions-grilled-fillet-138421859
Hope he can have shutterstock take the fake ports down
HappyBunny:
I saw a lot of photos that are on free stock photo websites on our microstock websites. I don't know if they stole them from the microstock websites since they mention the artist and you can pay the artist through a PayPal link. They are mainly on Pexels and Pixabay. Do microstock photographers themselves put them up for free on the free stock websites in the hope to earn more money there?
The same guy stole this image https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/spring-flowers-background-pink-blossom-182465339
And the following image is on the free stock photo websites: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/spring-border-background-pink-blossom-128624426
https://www.pexels.com/photo/nature-summer-spring-flower-76997/
Two different names but maybe it's the same person who knows. Who knows who steels from whom. Free stock photo websites do not allow people to download a photo and to sell it on microstock.
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: KuriousKat on December 29, 2018, 19:10 ---It just gets worse :(
Clicking on another image from the second contributor above, i get a similar hit from yet another contributor.
This:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/grilled-meat-on-dinner-1138138988?src=uC-RhHYOgDgT8MvkiO2dVg-1-0
is taken from here:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/food-nd-drinks-fruits-1049190053?src=Si8QRV_HkHQdTTGVCs1rNA-1-3
The third contributor has one of those odd mix portfolios, from crap to stunning! One really caught my eye as the Mac os Sierra image!
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/nature-mountains-real-1049191538?src=Si8QRV_HkHQdTTGVCs1rNA-1-13
And that brings up similars, so he's not alone in trying to sell the Mac photo!
Go figure.....
......if this wasn't so sad I'd have a good laugh
--- End quote ---
Very funny, the one ID: 1049190053 "food nd drinks fruits" is taken from StockCreations 138421859 which has real English words. Uploaded 32 million images before the one from BOUDANE, who has a total of102 images, then I look at the new member, by fresh, and there are about 30 really top quality images, followed by total crap flower shots. He started with dandelions, probably didn't get any sales, so moved on to image theft.
The other Alexiy Molochnik has 178 images. That same steak again? This is the state of how terrible Microstock has become.
The original from stockcreations is part of a series of shots of the same setting and he has over 13,000 very nice food shots. Not hard to guess who made the original.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version