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What's the limit of stolen images to be shut down??? fritzkocher issue
click_click:
Life would be so much easier if all the agencies would take advantage of Tineye's API to check for duplicates right during the review process.
But that's just an impossible thing to ask...
a.k.a.-tom:
Once ......and too bad it's so difficult on the world scene to take these scum-eating thieves to trial!!
And yes, he/she should be named and so should the agency hosting him/her AND... the agencies where they came from. This gives us all a heads-up alert to protect ourselves. Some agencies are swift at slamming down on this sort of thing while others couldnt be bothered. Those that cant be bothered should be known to us. I for one would pull my port, why would I support their profits when they couldnt care less about mine?
Those that support us, as SS recently did for me and others by catching even legit buyers abusing the system, I commend and and thank and support. Those that don't..." hey, couldnt care less about me, hasta la vista, baby".
One thing I am so tired of doing is having to waste time searching for stolen work.... like this moron with almost 1400 pix. And I sure dont have time to put my upteen thousand pix thru tineye... sad.
Thanks for the info, click X2. 8)=tom
loop:
--- Quote from: click_click on October 05, 2009, 12:12 ---Life would be so much easier if all the agencies would take advantage of Tineye's API to check for duplicates right during the review process.
But that's just an impossible thing to ask...
--- End quote ---
Maybe they do, I don't know... but I've discovered links to stolen images of mine, with its thumbail (At tin eye), and when opening these links the image was already deleted.
click_click:
--- Quote from: loop on October 05, 2009, 12:17 ---Maybe they do, I don't know...
--- End quote ---
They don't...
Otherwise I wouldn't be posting this...
Jo Ann Snover:
I checked his portfolio at BigStock, Shutterstock and StockXpert. I didn't find the images that infringed (me) at BigStock and SS, but I did at StockXpert. I have notified them (and iStock with an update) - it should be fairly straightforward to get the guy's work pulled from another Getty company, one would think.
In looking at his SS portfolio, there are lots of obvious composites. It'd be worth people having a quick check for their own stuff. Let's try and get this practice stopped, not just one or two infringing images removed and the guy gets to continue doing it with new material.
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