I had a few shortlisted but nothing yet.


They get interested, email me for this and that and then I hear no more... I am not sure if I've done something wrong?

At the end of the day I got the shots removed and nothing else. The individuals are still free to continue selling blatanly obvious illegal work. Redbubble response was just shocking.


I even tried to notify other people and agencies about their work being used. Well the agencies don't care and talk like they fell from the moon - "Can you provide us what license X has go with us?" "If they didn't license the photo we can't do anything about them" Fair enough - just steal and you're OK. If you buy you may actually get in trouble if you take a little step too far.


So yeah - pretty disappointed really. I wish I was a US based lawyer myself

Quote from: sharpshot on November 21, 2013, 09:33
Got a strange email about how they have my photos and how I can search for them.  Can't find anything on there.  Looks more like alamy than microstock.  Anyone else had an email from them?  I can remember uploading to them but I've used so many sites, there are some I forget about.

They used to be several separate smaller but reputable agencies (like World Pictures) before a merger a few years ago. If you have the B or whatever number you can just search on their site.


I fear those emails from CEO and delay for my payment is not a good sign - I fear of Getty stepping in. That is the trend these days

Quote from: mlwinphoto on November 11, 2013, 02:30
I would also let Getty know....they don't take kindly to images they have on file being ripped off.

Getty do not and will never have that file. Ever. I just like their pricing structure 

Quote from: Freedom on November 11, 2013, 00:44
Even if the images are filtered or altered, they are still protected by copyright law. Did you contact the site admins?

For FAA, you can see if there were sales, because most people would congratulate the seller, unless the image was sold as a greeting card.

He has a couple comments on there... not a good sign then?


I am going to contact admins tomorrow. What is the best way to do it to make sure they respond fully rather than deleting photo and ignoring me or fobbing off?


Namely I've had not so great experience dealing with local B&B owners and one international hotel booking site. I don't know if this may be similar.

The copied a low res image and added a couple nasty filters on top to make it more like a very saturated painting. But it is still very clearly my photo.


I am also a little concerned they are devaluing my work. You know, it is one of those special images bringing in >30% sales.

A quick question - any received their hard earned payment recently?

Hi,

I found a pretty poor copy of my key image on Fine Art America and Redbubble being marketed (and I presume sold) as canvas and postcards - clearly stolen by two unscrupulous individuals.

What is the best course of action to take with mind of getting at least some compensation at least for illegal sales and a ban for the bad guys? I sell it as RM at full Getty prices myself so I am pretty annoyed.

Ps. I am based in UK if that makes any positive or negative difference.

Thanks

Quote from: Xanox on September 20, 2013, 10:17
I just use Alamy as a dump, if they sell, good, if they don't sell, no problem.

As for Corbis, believe it or not i'm seeing very good things on their spin-off Demotix, when they do have good coverage of news event they indeed sell and they end up on the all the top newspapers and this is something that wasn't happening before the Corbis buyout.

It seems I am taking this approach too with them, however what is better for "dump" - rm of rf in there?

Yes join them, but use with caution. It is very nice to get a few RM images in - then if you ever need to "prove" how much you charge for your images, just show that. It is also to give them images you couldn't sell yourself for whatever reason, or through another more profitable agency. I would keep most valuable images away though. Just my personal advice.

Quote from: ShadySue on October 22, 2013, 15:23

Quote from: gejam on October 22, 2013, 15:15
I think its 15 percent

I think it's still 20% for Flickrites; however indies at iS get 15%, IIRC.

I have just looked at my contract. It still stands at 20% for RF.