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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Image Sleuth => Topic started by: e_mikh on January 03, 2023, 01:16
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Found 2k+ my photos on sale at:
https://www.freepik.com/author/ingram (https://www.freepik.com/author/ingram)
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Report that right away at copyright @ freepik .com.
Also drop them a message on twitter or elsewhere.
I had experienced a slow response in the beginning - now I have the template for this DMCA emails, but it's time consuming anyway.
169k downloads is significant sum.
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Tank you. :)
Yep. Many sales and number is growing. I wrote to [email protected], but something (sales🤑?) is preventing them of strong action.
Whatever, will write again.
Found in that port photos of another two authors, but cant reach em.
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Must be accounts created by idiots who watch Youtube videos "Make $3,000 an hour uploading others' photos. No experience needed!"
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Toothless.
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Toothless.
"that they have bought from a contributor"? What does that mean? What contributor of what agency? Because I do not know any microstock agency that allows re-selling of images, so, yes, that would actually be illegal.
Did you file a DMC copyright notice? They are legally bound to react to that.
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"that they have bought from a contributor"? What does that mean? What contributor of what agency? Because I do not know any microstock agency that allows re-selling of images, so, yes, that would actually be illegal.
Did you file a DMC copyright notice? They are legally bound to react to that.
Yes I did. Dozen e-mails with DMCA-bla-bla "I copyright owner, this is violation.... this is link to my port at Alamy.... bla-bla"
No in - no out.
But.
Hold tight, guys, I have another sad story linked to this case.
Once upon a time I signed to Ingram Images agency, uploaded 2k+ images and first couple years had 70-100 pounds every quarter.
Then income fallen like I newer saw before - immediately and was like 20-30 pounds/quarter.
Couple years ago I wrote letter to Ingram with request of agreement termination and then-editor-some-guy Louis assured me that all images are deleted, money paid, we all set.
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Everything was fine untill I decided to sign up to Freepik and upload some of my early "christmas" images there. Next day I got copyright warning from Freepik and demanded to explain where from I got mine (!) images.
I started searching on Freepik markretplace and found.... ALL my "deleted" by Ingram port in portfolio of user....... wait for it.... INGRAM!)
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Today I asked Ingram second time to do the same - delete my images and terminate agreement.
They agreed.
Again.
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Another thief on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/photobalance/ (https://www.freepik.com/author/photobalance/)
Found hundreds of my photos on sale.
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Another Freepik thief:
https://www.freepik.es/autor/onetwostudio55 (https://www.freepik.es/autor/onetwostudio55)
Page after page stolen Istock exclusive images with more than a couple hundreds of my best selling images!
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Recently I found several copies of my images on freepik, I sent DMCA notice, they asked for screenshots with dates of upload and then just let me know, that the portfolio with my images was removed. Even my images were just small part of that portfolio. So DMCA is working on freepik. But it takes time to gather all links and fill the form.
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New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8 (https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8)
About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.
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Toothless.
You say toothless, I say criminal and crooked.
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I also found one that has a lot of my photos:
https://www.freepik.com/author/solidstocks (https://www.freepik.com/author/solidstocks)
>:(
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Toothless.
You say toothless, I say criminal and crooked.
THIS^^
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Toothless.
This is incredible! Bad times for honest contributors!
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This has been Freepik since day 1
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my question is:
a) how are they downloading all your assets? (do you have it on some unlimited plan?)
b) curious also - how are you finding your assets/finding out the ones they've taken?
thanks!
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my question is:
a) how are they downloading all your assets? (do you have it on some unlimited plan?)
I think so. Envato AFAIK doing.
b) curious also - how are you finding your assets/finding out the ones they've taken?
thanks!
Untill I find them taken I don't know about that. (titles/keywords + sorting results by popularity if you meant this)
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my question is:
b) curious also - how are you finding your assets/finding out the ones they've taken?
thanks!
I have some specific images and so they are easy to find. A simple search immediately brings them to my attention.
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I also found one that has a lot of my photos:
https://www.freepik.com/author/solidstocks (https://www.freepik.com/author/solidstocks)
>:(
After a few more emails sent to them....
Hi
The author has been blocked and his content removed from our site. Please allow 24 hours for the images to disappear from our site.
Regards
Copyright Department
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New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8 (https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8)
About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.
Thief is gone. RIP.
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New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8 (https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8)
About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.
Thief is gone. RIP.
For now.
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Thank you for this thread I found randomly.
Found 1.5k of my images stolen
https://www.freepik.com/author/alleca (https://www.freepik.com/author/alleca)
2.1k downloads on premium. IM guessing this person has made lots of money off me. Emailed support but will they actually do anything?
Chris
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Thank you for this thread I found randomly.
Found 1.5k of my images stolen
https://www.freepik.com/author/alleca (https://www.freepik.com/author/alleca)
2.1k downloads on premium. IM guessing this person has made lots of money off me. Emailed support but will they actually do anything?
Chris
Hi,
You need to be more insistent. In the end, in my case, they blocked that user. I also wrote to them on Facebook and left a negative review on Google Maps.
Use this email address: [email protected]
:)
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They have replied pretty quick asking for usual details like publication date. Sent them examples but where do you start. Its 1500 assets!
So can this be reported to police or anything? 2100 sales to this thief! I presume they just get away with it.
MOre importantlyu if so many are finding their images on Freepik can we ascertain how this is happening? How are they getting hold of our portfolios? One library has a security hole and they should be challenged on this
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They have replied pretty quick asking for usual details like publication date. Sent them examples but where do you start. Its 1500 assets!
So can this be reported to police or anything? 2100 sales to this thief! I presume they just get away with it.
MOre importantlyu if so many are finding their images on Freepik can we ascertain how this is happening? How are they getting hold of our portfolios? One library has a security hole and they should be challenged on this
Good that people are paying attention, looking and trying to stop this.
Just a question, which I have no idea to the answer. How much did 2.11k Downloads pay this person?
I don't understand:
There is not a fixed price for the download of an image. This is how your earnings from downloads will be calculated:
In the PPD model, earnings calculation is based on the share of the net revenue obtained from Freepik’s Premium subscribers.
This revenue is shared among contributors based on two concepts:
The contributor’s share will correspond to the 50% of the net revenue obtained from Premium subscribers who download content in an specific invoicing period divided by the number of downloads made by those subscribers during that period.
The calculation of every download remuneration will be adapted to every contributor, since the price per download will depend on the number of downloads made by the subscriber downloading the contributor’s image in a specific invoicing period.
The formula used by Freepik to calculate the remuneration of a single download in a monthly invoicing period will be as follows:
(Net Revenue from Subscriber X/ Downloads made by Subscriber X)* 50% revenue share=
one download remuneration
50% of what the premium subscribers pay. But if the downloads are free, then 2.15K downloads could be nothing?
How much do people actually get paid per credit in a normal situation?
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As I understand there is free and premium. All the stolen assets are in premium collection. But yes its a revenue sharing scheme so potentially could be a smallish amount. Like maybe $200.
I think the key issues here are of course theyre stolen and thats crap. These people are arseholes. Id lock them up if I could. They dont need to be around me in society. Also, and everyone should be wary, is that more people go to Freepik for cheap imagery its sabotages the other stock libraries. Esp macro libraries like Alamy. For me Adobe Stock is the healthy middle ground. Shutterstock has gone to crap in earnings per image. Most images on Adobe go for US$1.3o and up. Shutterstock is like 30 cents. But eventually why would anyone use more expensive libraries when they can go to Freepik. So we get hurt that way too
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As I understand there is free and premium. All the stolen assets are in premium collection. But yes its a revenue sharing scheme so potentially could be a smallish amount. Like maybe $200.
I think the key issues here are of course theyre stolen and thats crap. These people are arseholes. Id lock them up if I could. They dont need to be around me in society. Also, and everyone should be wary, is that more people go to Freepik for cheap imagery its sabotages the other stock libraries. Esp macro libraries like Alamy. For me Adobe Stock is the healthy middle ground. Shutterstock has gone to crap in earnings per image. Most images on Adobe go for US$1.3o and up. Shutterstock is like 30 cents. But eventually why would anyone use more expensive libraries when they can go to Freepik. So we get hurt that way too
Maybe responsible people don't use Freepik because they know that there are stolen images and potential copyright issues, and they don't want to be subject to a lawsuit for using them? I can't see any business that's going to risk an infringement claim and court, for a free image.
$200 is a much bigger number than I expected to see. This whole revenue sharing is dependent on Premium Members who pay and then, download images. Then the artist (thief in this case) gets one share.
Do I understand right, if I upload images, they aren't free, they are all Premium? In which case, yes the thief did receive credits for stolen images. The Free Images are a bait and switch kind of thing. I'd like to hear from someone who has images on the site and can say what they get per credit?
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I have lots of images on the site...except I never uploaded them... :'(
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I have lots of images on the site...except I never uploaded them... :'(
You don't seem to be alone on that? :(
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They have replied pretty quick asking for usual details like publication date. Sent them examples but where do you start. Its 1500 assets!
So can this be reported to police or anything? 2100 sales to this thief! I presume they just get away with it.
MOre importantlyu if so many are finding their images on Freepik can we ascertain how this is happening? How are they getting hold of our portfolios? One library has a security hole and they should be challenged on this
Good that people are paying attention, looking and trying to stop this.
Just a question, which I have no idea to the answer. How much did 2.11k Downloads pay this person?
I don't understand:
There is not a fixed price for the download of an image. This is how your earnings from downloads will be calculated:
In the PPD model, earnings calculation is based on the share of the net revenue obtained from Freepik’s Premium subscribers.
This revenue is shared among contributors based on two concepts:
The contributor’s share will correspond to the 50% of the net revenue obtained from Premium subscribers who download content in an specific invoicing period divided by the number of downloads made by those subscribers during that period.
The calculation of every download remuneration will be adapted to every contributor, since the price per download will depend on the number of downloads made by the subscriber downloading the contributor’s image in a specific invoicing period.
The formula used by Freepik to calculate the remuneration of a single download in a monthly invoicing period will be as follows:
(Net Revenue from Subscriber X/ Downloads made by Subscriber X)* 50% revenue share=
one download remuneration
50% of what the premium subscribers pay. But if the downloads are free, then 2.15K downloads could be nothing?
How much do people actually get paid per credit in a normal situation?
Pennies and dimes
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Pennies and dimes
I'm uploading 200 of my oldest photos, (until I get 200 accepted in other words) and some are being excluded when they are better selling on the major sites. That's kind of unfair and loading the results towards the negative side, but also I'm just interested in how much does someone get per download, not how much can I make.
So far the uploading was easy and the reviews are wacko. But what's new in Microstock? Sunset rejected for "Inadequate Lighting", illustration using US Federal Reserve Notes is rejected for "Multi-image photo ", and a star trails shot for "Quality Standards".
I only uploaded images that were already accepted on SS, AS, IS, AL and DT. And I mean accepted at all of them in most cases. But I'm not hurt or offended as this is only a test.
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I found the same pictures from different authors. It was clear that we were talking about stolen photos. I have notified the Copyright department several times and finally received the following reply:
"Hi
If you have images created by yourself that have been illegally published on our site, please let us know.
We can not undertake an investigation if it does not come from the images owner.
Regards"
So it is quite clear that they don't care and even if they know that there are stolen images on their website it is no problem for them.
>:( >:( >:(
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Another Freepik thief:
https://www.freepik.com/author/soularts (https://www.freepik.com/author/soularts)
He/she stole my whole portfolio from Envato, and there are many other images.
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Another Freepik thief, stole at least one of my images. I just wrote to Freepik about it. >:(
The Freepik thief:
https://www.freepik.es/autor/askg (https://www.freepik.es/autor/askg)
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I found a number of my images in his account.
I sent a DMCA takedown to Freepix yesterday and got a reply that my images were removed and his account was blocked immediately.
Just checked and it's still there.
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I had same issue, he downloaded my whole portfolio from Envato. They asked me for proof and I said it's all mine, I sent them one image and link to my other sites and they deleted the one image. I had to back and forth for over a month and finally got his profile deleted last week
I found a number of my images in his account.
I sent a DMCA takedown to Freepix yesterday and got a reply that my images were removed and his account was blocked immediately.
Just checked and it's still there.
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Quite obvious by the different styles of the portfolio that this is a big thief . Same with the Freepik company. These are crooks and thieves that do not care that other crooks and thieves operate under their roof.
Another Freepik thief, stole at least one of my images. I just wrote to Freepik about it. >:(
The Freepik thief:
https://www.freepik.es/autor/askg (https://www.freepik.es/autor/askg)
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I found a number of my images in his account.
I sent a DMCA takedown to Freepix yesterday and got a reply that my images were removed and his account was blocked immediately.
Just checked and it's still there.
Update the account has been deleted.
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Another Freepik thief, stole at least one of my images. I just wrote to Freepik about it. >:(
The Freepik thief:
https://www.freepik.es/autor/askg (https://www.freepik.es/autor/askg)
Update!