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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: ShadySue on December 14, 2012, 11:55
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Just out of interest, how good is SS at chasing up misuse, e.g. not paying for extended uses, clearly stolen uses, using images with watermark, using editorial as commercial, pinterest and clones, etc?
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Pretty good. I remember a case a few years back where a company was producing calendars without paying ELs and they chased them up and got us all paid. There were quite a few contributers that got pay outs.
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I think I remember that one - they paid me the EL while I was exclusive, so they had to do a little tweaking to pay me as it didn't meet the $75 payment threshhold.
The sites with bunches of stolen SS items, particularly vectors, are an ongoing problem, so it looks like they're doing nothing, but I think it's a game of whack-a-mole
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Thanks.