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Image Sleuth / Food photographers -- is your work on this site?
« on: June 24, 2020, 14:35 »
Early last month I learned that one of my older stock photographs was on PreparedFoodPhotos.com, which I had never heard of before. A company that used the photo said they got a letter from AdLife, the parent company, demanding $4,525 for copyright infringement.
PreparedFoodPhotos is a curious site it purports to sell thousands of stock photos of food for a monthly subscription of only $999. The photographs are displayed without watermarks and with no photographer credit. My photo, which mysteriously appeared on the site, was available on iStock until I deactivated my portfolio in 2013. AdLife apparently claims to have registered the copyright for my work, claiming it was first published in 1998, which is impossible.
My first queries to PreparedFoodPhotos.com were sent on their in-site contact form and were not answered. Only when I issued a DMCA did I get a response and it took more than a week and yet another DMCA to get them to remove my work. But in the response Executive Vice President Douglas Fleurant said I firmly agree that Intellectual Property Rights should be respected and protected. He also called the pirating of my work an anomaly.
So lets help them out by ferreting out any other mistakes?
Id also appreciate any advice for how to proceed. Many thanks.
PreparedFoodPhotos is a curious site it purports to sell thousands of stock photos of food for a monthly subscription of only $999. The photographs are displayed without watermarks and with no photographer credit. My photo, which mysteriously appeared on the site, was available on iStock until I deactivated my portfolio in 2013. AdLife apparently claims to have registered the copyright for my work, claiming it was first published in 1998, which is impossible.
My first queries to PreparedFoodPhotos.com were sent on their in-site contact form and were not answered. Only when I issued a DMCA did I get a response and it took more than a week and yet another DMCA to get them to remove my work. But in the response Executive Vice President Douglas Fleurant said I firmly agree that Intellectual Property Rights should be respected and protected. He also called the pirating of my work an anomaly.
So lets help them out by ferreting out any other mistakes?
Id also appreciate any advice for how to proceed. Many thanks.
