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Veer stealing my work
BaldricksTrousers:
More than 30 days ago I terminated my contract with veer by e-mail in accordance with article X of the contributor contract. Veer have failed to delete my portfolio as they are required to by law, and are still offering my work for sale.
I gather from another thread that I am not the only one whose copyright is being violated in this way, but I thought a new thread might be useful, to alert people - contributors, customers and Veer staff - that licenses Veer is offering for sale may be invalid.
As this work is now being offered for sale via Getty, it may be that Getty is selling licenses that have no legal validity.
What a mess!
Mikeme:
Okay so lets sum up what just happened and is happening here with Veer:
1. Site broken/slow/no sales for months
2. VCG aka 'Getty' bought Corbis/Veer
3. Getty does not care about contributors and we all know that already (just ask Sean) ;)
4. Veer site is completely messed up, can't upload via FTP nor through the browser (You get an error no matter how many times you try)
5. No support from their staff
6. I think that the site will close or the content will be transferred to a new Getty collection called 'whateva'
7. I'm out!
Justanotherphotographer:
That's rough. I hope they get this sorted. If they have transfered the image to their chinese partner for distribution getting them off their channels could be a whole other mess.
Jo Ann Snover:
--- Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on February 27, 2016, 10:23 ---As this work is now being offered for sale via Getty, it may be that Getty is selling licenses that have no legal validity.
What a mess!
--- End quote ---
How about send DMCA notices to Getty for your own images? They don't own Veer but possibly they could get the folks who do to remove work that shouldn't be there.
BaldricksTrousers:
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on February 27, 2016, 14:12 ---
--- Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on February 27, 2016, 10:23 ---As this work is now being offered for sale via Getty, it may be that Getty is selling licenses that have no legal validity.
What a mess!
--- End quote ---
How about send DMCA notices to Getty for your own images? They don't own Veer but possibly they could get the folks who do to remove work that shouldn't be there.
--- End quote ---
Interesting thought, but I don't want Getty dumping my iStock portfolio at the same time (it's got much of the same stuff there). I'm more bothered about a Chinese company having them without my permission.
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