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Posted by blackfox: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 04:05

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Having been away a little while you lads won't be up to speed on this ,bu5 a couple of years ago I signed up to a company that fights image theft on your behalf called pixys.com you allow them access to any hosting sites that you use I.e Flickr,500px etc and if they find any matches being used commercially they chase it up on your behalf and believe me they don't pee about I have had payouts this year totalling over 2 grand ,so worth signing up to the first 500 matches are free so it's a no brainer

Posted by Robert: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 04:32

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Sounds worthwhile, what do you have to do to prove you have copyright?

Have just visited the site, they seem to manage French Highways and Airports?

Do you have the url you are using please.

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Posted by jk: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 05:24

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That is interesting.
Will take a look.

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Posted by blackfox: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 05:49

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oops a mispelling on my i.pad . its pixsy.com OOPS

they even take on the big boys one of my payouts was from p&o ferries ,they take 50% but do all the work for you ,one of my claims involved having to sign online court documents in the Louisiana state court .

Posted by Robert: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 06:53

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No Prob, I guess it would be a typo.

P&O, you wouldn't have thought they needed to go around pinching photo's... Perhaps they just do it and cough up if caught.

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Posted by blackfox: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 12:20

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you would be surprised ,I can't action the main one thats been stolen as its of a famous sports personality ,but she allowed it happen and any action would come back on me as its family .silly girl :no:

Posted by Eric: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 12:24

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Robert wrote:
No Prob, I guess it would be a typo.

P&O, you wouldn't have thought they needed to go around pinching photo's... Perhaps they just do it and cough up if caught.
Sometimes it's done without their knowledge.

In the early days of web presence, I created a website on behalf of a marketing company for their client ... a major UK Coach Company.

The marketing company provided all the images for me to construct the website. I didn't question the origin or rights to use the images.

12months later I was told to remove 2 photos immediately. Getty images had billed the Coach company with £5k for illegal use of copyright photos.

Didn't cause ME any grief but the marketing company had to negotiate a reduced payout with Getty....and then lost the client!

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Posted by Eric: Sun Nov 12th, 2017 12:37

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I confess I have been lax about copyright of my images.

Some years ago I gave a large res version of a lorry photo I had taken, to the haulage company ...owner of the lorry. I had been paid for the photography so was relaxed about them having a copy. A few months later they told me with great deligh that they 'gave' it to DAF trucks.....who used it on a 40ft display at and International Transport Exhibition at Earls Court.
They were chuffed their company livery was thus advertised....I wasn't so pleased DAF got a free image.

It's one of the reasons I no longer broadcast my most important photos on forums or internet sites. It may have the nett effect of not earning any additional money from my work but that's not why I take photos.

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Posted by Robert: Mon Nov 13th, 2017 08:50

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Turning this on it's head...

Perhaps there could be an inducement to put ALL ones best images online, unsecured, in large resolution and sit back to await a flow of fat cheques? Copy-bait!

When I get a moment I will register, nothing to loose, maybe somebody might have nicked one of mine! Not holding my breath though.

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Posted by blackfox: Tue Nov 14th, 2017 03:36

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That's what I thought initially rob,but the two largest payouts have been from just haphazard shots ,one taken in Crete at the dawn of the digital age and the other of a Xmas fun fair used by a catering company . .there are also lots of pics that have been stolen by bots that can't be followed up or Chinese ,Russian etc websites that can't be actioned on .

Posted by Robert: Tue Nov 14th, 2017 06:44

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Haphazard, have loads of them!

:lol:

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Posted by Eric: Tue Nov 14th, 2017 08:17

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So...am I right in saying to get this to work, you first have to link all the locations where you are storing photos, eg Flickr, Facebook etc and Pixsy will look for them being used elsewhere?

But if you have files on Dropbox you have to upload those photos to Pixsy site because it cannot access them from there.

So what about photos in this forums gallery?

And what about photos that were resident on the net for a period of time but have been now removed?

If I want to ascertain whether ANY of my photos that have been at some time on the net...I would need to reload them all to Pixsy for them to be able to search for them being used?

Or am I missing something here?

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Posted by blackfox: Tue Nov 14th, 2017 09:55

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Unless you subscribe there is a 500 photos limit Eric .flickr is my main storage site so that's where they search .not sur3 about other storage sites ? They have a pretty good reply to queries section though

Posted by Eric: Tue Nov 14th, 2017 11:06

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blackfox wrote:
Unless you subscribe there is a 500 photos limit Eric .flickr is my main storage site so that's where they search .not sur3 about other storage sites ? They have a pretty good reply to queries section though
I signed up but when it came to the site linking, it said that I had to upload any photos from Dropbox manually. :thumbsdown:

I stopped all web posting when I scrapped my business website...so there's not much of mine out there NOW....apart from posts in various forums. I even scrapped my gallery on this forum. :lol:

But it made me wonder what might have been nicked when my website was active? But to find tha5 out, I would have to physically re upload them, somewhere.
o.O

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