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Shutterstock.com / What to do about misuse of Shutterstock images?
« on: May 15, 2008, 13:29 »
As far as I know Shutterstock buyers are not allowed to use images for larger sized calendar prints (or calendar prints at all) unless they purchase an Enhanced license - is that right?
My sister (who's a Shutterstock contributor as well) found several of her images used in a calendar series printed by a UK company. Those images were definitely purchased from Shutterstock but my sister never got an Enhanced license for any of them. She wrote to Shutterstock support several months ago and they promised to take care of the matter. However, nothing has happened so far. Today my sister saw that even more of her images are being used for the 2009 calendar series.
What can she expect here - nothing?
Has anyone ever faced a similar scenario? Any advice on that matter?
(By the way, this issue probably concerns a lot of Shutterstock contributors as this calendar company buys regularly from Shutterstock and has a large sortiment of calendars with many different topics.)
My sister (who's a Shutterstock contributor as well) found several of her images used in a calendar series printed by a UK company. Those images were definitely purchased from Shutterstock but my sister never got an Enhanced license for any of them. She wrote to Shutterstock support several months ago and they promised to take care of the matter. However, nothing has happened so far. Today my sister saw that even more of her images are being used for the 2009 calendar series.
What can she expect here - nothing?
Has anyone ever faced a similar scenario? Any advice on that matter?
(By the way, this issue probably concerns a lot of Shutterstock contributors as this calendar company buys regularly from Shutterstock and has a large sortiment of calendars with many different topics.)