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Yes definitely because it's a derivative work without your consent.
Thanks. I'm going to log back in and raise a case [emoji106]
Yes definitely because it's a derivative work without your consent.
look lads lets put it in perspective it takes time .your not gonna make hundreds of pounds overnight .it took me over a year to get my first payment ,and they also don't go for any silly payment type payments leave the settlement to them don't try and assign silly figures of your own making all of mine have been between 350 to 500 quid settlements which i'm more than happy with
same here phil i,m just a o.a.p with a hobby .it also surprised me what has been used and the extent of itI've left my claim with them. If I get anything in the way of a payment it's a bonus. I'm not a Pro just an amateur.
I was just surprise at the amount of my shots that have been used without my permission.
same here phil i,m just a o.a.p with a hobby .it also surprised me what has been used and the extent of it
And so it should, especially as those types of comps generally sign over rights to image use to the company running it.I have a load of possible cases mainly on screensaver type sites. Iv started 3 or 4 just to see how it pans out, its seems to be taking forever. I started them a couple of months back and no news yet apart from a confirmation. I had another look through my matches today and found a viewbug member had used an image of mine and entered a comp with it and was placed..the theft of my images to use as wallpaper or to illustrate something on a website is one thing but another photographer using my image and claiming its his has really got my back up!...to top it off its a crap image too [emoji23]
Well ... just playing the numbers game - assuming pixsys chose the first 500 images then there is a possibility of getting a serious return from the remaining 5,500 images (crude maths suggests 11 x 2K but as I said crude ...). The probability is that there will be others so even if it is only another £2k compared against the cost of a subscription it is a gamble that is worth taking imo. If you think of paying the subs from existing winnings then you are not even out of pocket, you are gambling with their money so to speakJust a update I had my last case payout a couple of days ago ,again a three figure sum . I now have to decide whether to subscribe to them for a year or just hope no more have been stolen ,this years payouts are currently around the 2k mark ,so it’s probably a no brainer .but I still like to be cautious .all my payouts have been from the initial free 500 images and I have around 6000 pics on Flickr
I think at the least I'd be in contact with the comp secretary and let them know ...Just been looking at it now, it was placed in one comp in 2015 and won featured in 2016. Im fuming and holding back from a full on abusive attack! Im thinking to wait till iv calmed and then be more measured
That doesn't matter who, show your principles, raise a case!!!!!1I had a email from them last week, but it was for a photo on here at TP that I put up.
I have a load of possible cases mainly on screensaver type sites. Iv started 3 or 4 just to see how it pans out, its seems to be taking forever. I started them a couple of months back and no news yet apart from a confirmation. I had another look through my matches today and found a viewbug member had used an image of mine and entered a comp with it and was placed..the theft of my images to use as wallpaper or to illustrate something on a website is one thing but another photographer using my image and claiming its his has really got my back up!...to top it off its a crap image too [emoji23]
moving the sliders over to commercial use will give you a idea of of what has and what hasn't been stolen its no use trying to get a payment from i.e bill smith if he has pinched it and posted it on facebook ,but big companies should know better a recent £500 settlement of mine came from one of the worlds biggest holiday firms .What's the best way of testing the match functionality on pixsy.
I've imported a few images over the last few weeks and no matches on their 'weakest' match system. Normally i get a few hits on unrelated images. Just not sure it's working?
Thanks for your reply, although that's not the issue i'm experiencing.moving the sliders over to commercial use will give you a idea of of what has and what hasn't been stolen its no use trying to get a payment from i.e bill smith if he has pinched it and posted it on facebook ,but big companies should know better a recent £500 settlement of mine came from one of the worlds biggest holiday firms .
Nope so maybe I didn't lol. Only trying it on my phone and pressing the buttons seemed to do something but not so sure now. Will get on laptop when the little man is having his nap.Good luck with it Brazo, great images btw. Have you signed up for premium to use the takedown feature?
Thanks but il only take credit for 'Postcard from London'Good luck with it Brazo, great images btw. Have you signed up for premium to use the takedown feature?
Great minds and all that! Iv a couple like that on my matches but mine are more classic views that everyone has taken!Nope so maybe I didn't lol. Only trying it on my phone and pressing the buttons seemed to do something but not so sure now. Will get on laptop when the little man is having his nap.
On another note I took a street style photo in Lisbon in 2014 and processed it in black and white. It matched a near identical but different person in image shot by a Portuguese street photographer. Now either he was copying me (Impossible as he took the image in 2013), or I was copying him (I honestly hadn't seen this image before) or two people 'saw' the same scene and shot it and processed it in the same way!
This is mine.
https://flic.kr/p/mr5QQv
This is his (scroll down)
http://www.streetviewphotography.net/interview-francisco-fernandes/
Are they just sites using the Flickr api to present them on a Flickr viewer page?So spent some time doing it properly and out of 305 matches I only saw fit to start 20 cases, basically companies ripping it off and quite big ones at that.
Most sites are wallpaper sites and whilst those two images above have been ripped off royally left right and centre I don't think it's worth pursuing wall paper sites?
I'm not quite sure what that means.Are they just sites using the Flickr api to present them on a Flickr viewer page?
Some valid points there. Photographer could upload, let people download the image a ton of times, then chase them and claim he never gave them(or pexels) permission to use the image.Interesting post from someone on the receiving end of a Pixsy demand: 'Image licensing - my experience of Pixsy extortion on a music blog'.
Whilst she’s clearly been naive (and without excuse as an artist herself) if the image is in use for a personal blog then she shouldn’t be chased for money. I suspect that’s why Pixsy backed down rather than accepting her free image site suggestion.Interesting post from someone on the receiving end of a Pixsy demand: 'Image licensing - my experience of Pixsy extortion on a music blog'.
if the image is in use for a personal blog then she shouldn’t be chased for money.