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This just couldn't be legal on so many different levels.

One of the biggest problems is that these sales through Promo.com don't get reported in your sales report and to make things even worse this site is extremely popular with marketing agencies for obvious reasons.

And even worse I believe this is just one out of many sites who operate like this.

Currently I have a proof that a marketing agency bought couple of my videos through Promo.com and used them for a commercial, none of which I can find in my reports, meaning I got 0% royalty from SS and iStock. I am trying to file a lawsuit at the moment, does anyone know any good lawyers who are familiar with copyright lawsuits? I would greatly appreciate any info

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Agencies hiding something from us?
« on: December 23, 2020, 03:58 »
Hi guys,

Thank you so much for your responses, I can see that this is not so uncommon after all. There is definitely something shady going on. In the meantime I got in touch with a marketing agency that was using my content (content that never got reported in sales reports) and was given a website where they downloaded it from. I believe this and probably many similar ones we still don't know about are soley responsible for all of our content being sold without our knowledge and royalties paid.

I opened a whole new topic here:

https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/found-a-site-that-sells-our-footage-for-dirt-cheap-and-practically-free/new/#new


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Hello fellow stockers,

I found a website called Promo.com that is selling footage from ShutterStock and iStock at extremely low prices and is so badly watermarking the content that you can practically download the videos in full quality without paying anything. I searched it and found most of my content there, I believe this concerns all of you and probably your footage is there as well.

Recently I was able to find a lot of my content in various online ads, even TV commercials, that were missing from the sales reports. Luckily I was able to get in contact with one marketing agency and gather more info about where they got my content from and that;s how I found out about this website. All of the clips they purchased from this site were never reported in any sales reports on SS or iStock.

Another big issue is how they are watermarking the content, as you can see in the attachment below you only have 1 stripe in the upper left corner of the video which makes our videos usable in full resolution for most of Instagram ads and similar content in 4:5 aspect ratio for free.

Reading the About section of the website I found info that they are partners with ShutterStock and Getty Images.

Can someone please tell me is there something we can do about this?

Thanks in advance

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General Stock Discussion / Agencies hiding something from us?
« on: December 21, 2020, 02:08 »
Hi fellow stockers 🙂

I hope someone can give me an insight into a problem I've been experiencing for a while now.

Occasionally I stumble upon a footage of mine in a TV commercial or social media ads that is nowhere to be found in sales reports on ShutterStock, Adobe Stock or iStock where I sell my stock content.

Does anyone know how is this possible? Are micro stock agencies hiding from us some of the content being sold or there is something in Terms and conditions that I missed?

Thanks in advance for any help

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Newbie Discussion / Re: why can't I start a new thread?
« on: December 20, 2020, 17:56 »
awesome, thanks :)

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