![]() Then, you’ll probably receive the following generic email pertaining to making DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice. In the unlikely event that one of your images is stolen, as the copyright owner of the image, the first step is to get in contact with and with all the details, who will then forward their query to SS’s compliance department. What do you do if you suspect one of your images was stolen? Seems like many contributors on there are also worried about this issue, rightly so! March 11 Update: A thread on Pixabay has recently been created linking to this blog post. However, this forbids them from re-licensing as one must be a copyright owner (wont get into the legal nitty gritty). The terms and conditions of these agencies state that users can use such images freely in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use (you take your own risk for unreleased content). One avenue that many thieves (I’ll just cut down to the chase and call a spade a spade) use is to download a Creative Commons license (CC0) from free sites such as Unsplash and Pixabay. I’ll also name and shame some of these scum.įor the latest update, see here – Unsplash, Pexels and Pixabay – Creative Commons So why are Shutterstock not taking this issue seriously? What should you do if you suspect one of your images was stolen? Read on and I’ll try to provide you with all the answers. This problem seems only to be getting worse as many of accounts flagged up weeks/months ago are still active and uploading new misappropriated content. If you’ve been active on both the Shutterstock and MicrostockGroup forums lately, you’ll have seen an abundance of similar threads related to one core issue: contributors that are blatantly passing off others’ work as their on for profit.
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