Found 2k+ my photos on sale at:

https://www.freepik.com/author/ingram [nofollow]

Tank you. 
Yep. Many sales and number is growing. I wrote to [email protected] [nofollow], 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.

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.

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.
....
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!)
================
Today I asked Ingram second time to do the same - delete my images and terminate agreement.
They agreed.
Again.

Another Freepik thief:

https://www.freepik.es/autor/onetwostudio55 [nofollow]

Page after page stolen Istock exclusive images with more than a couple hundreds of my best selling images!

New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8 [nofollow]

About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.

I also found one that has a lot of my photos:

https://www.freepik.com/author/solidstocks

 

Toothless.

This is incredible! Bad times for honest contributors!

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!

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.

New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8 [nofollow]

About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.

Thief is gone. RIP.

Thank you for this thread I found randomly.

Found 1.5k of my images stolen

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

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

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

I have lots of images on the site...except I never uploaded them... 

Quote from: FiledIMAGE on January 27, 2023, 07:27

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

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.