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Image Sleuth / Re: Thief with 35k portfolio (photos) at Freepik
« on: January 24, 2023, 11:13 »
New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8

About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.
Thief is gone. RIP.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Thief with 35k portfolio (photos) at Freepik
« on: January 16, 2023, 00:02 »
my question is:
a) how are they downloading all your assets? (do you have it on some unlimited plan?)
I think so. Envato AFAIK doing.

b) curious also - how are you finding your assets/finding out the ones they've taken?

thanks!
Untill I find them taken I don't know about that. (titles/keywords + sorting results by popularity if you meant this)

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Image Sleuth / Re: Thief with 35k portfolio (photos) at Freepik
« on: January 15, 2023, 12:24 »
New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8

About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Thief with 35k portfolio (photos) at Freepik
« on: January 09, 2023, 08:25 »
"that they have bought from a contributor"? What does that mean? What contributor of what agency? Because I do not know any microstock agency that allows re-selling of images, so, yes, that would actually be illegal.
Did you file a DMC copyright notice? They are legally bound to react to that.
Yes I did. Dozen e-mails with DMCA-bla-bla "I copyright owner, this is violation.... this is link to my port at Alamy.... bla-bla"
No in - no out.

But.
Hold tight, guys, I have another sad story linked to this case.

Once upon a time I signed to Ingram Images agency, uploaded 2k+ images and first couple years had 70-100 pounds every quarter.
Then income fallen like I newer saw before - immediately and was like 20-30 pounds/quarter.
Couple years ago I wrote letter to Ingram with request of agreement termination and then-editor-some-guy Louis assured me that all images are deleted, money paid, we all set.
....
Everything was fine untill I decided to sign up to Freepik and upload some of my early "christmas" images there. Next day I got copyright warning from Freepik and demanded to explain where from I got mine (!) images.

I started searching on Freepik markretplace and found.... ALL my "deleted" by Ingram port in portfolio of user....... wait for it.... INGRAM!)
================
Today I asked Ingram second time to do the same - delete my images and terminate agreement.
They agreed.
Again.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Thief with 35k portfolio (photos) at Freepik
« on: January 09, 2023, 06:47 »
Toothless.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Thief with 35k portfolio (photos) at Freepik
« on: January 04, 2023, 08:25 »
Tank you.  :)
Yep. Many sales and number is growing. I wrote to [email protected], but something (sales🤑?) is preventing them of strong action.
Whatever, will write again.
Found in that port photos of another two authors,  but cant reach em.

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Image Sleuth / Thief with 35k portfolio (photos) at Freepik
« on: January 03, 2023, 01:16 »
Found 2k+ my photos on sale at:

https://www.freepik.com/author/ingram


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Newbie Discussion / Re: why can't I start a new thread?
« on: January 02, 2023, 04:21 »
Happy New Year!
(new user)

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