Author Topic: What do you do when you find your images in another account? (Read 2122 times)

ribtoks · « **on:** June 28, 2023, 00:51 »

Do you write to support?
Do you use any legal service?

Curious about takedown procedures you have experience with

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2023, 08:20 »

I have written to various site's legal compliance people when I have found my images in someone else's portfolio. Most sites take care of the problem although some - Shutterstock, I'm looking at you - are unbelievably slow. In a couple of Shutterstock cases, twitter-shaming got them unstuck after a long wait with no action.

DMCA takedown notices also work, but they're a pain to do and so that's only if there are no other options - FAA has a Shutterstock collection and had one of my images in it. I wrote to FAA in October 2020 to ask them to take it down as my SS account was closed 6 months earlier (SS has 90 days to remove from partner sites). FAA wrote back and told me to submit a DMCA takedown notice, and it was eventually removed.

ribtoks · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2023, 23:38 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on June 28, 2023, 08:20

DMCA takedown notices also work, but they're a pain to do and so that's only if there are no other options

How do you send them? Do you need a lawyer or you can do it yourself?

BTW, thank you a lot for your response!

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2023, 23:43 »

No lawyer required. You can email the text after you fill in the template (lots available online)

https://library.georgetown.edu/copyright/dmca-takedown

https://www.minclaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Sample-DMCA-Takedown-Notice.pdf

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/preparing-dmca-takedown-notice.html

ribtoks · « **Reply #4 on:** July 10, 2023, 13:32 »

I summarised all the information I found in this new blogpost https://xpiksapp.com/blog/stolen-stock-photos/ - How to find stolen photos and what to do about it

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