Author Topic: images stolen on shutterstock (Read 8772 times)

palagarde · « **on:** March 20, 2022, 08:44 »

Hi,
I saw several of my images stolen by theses contributors :
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/urvana
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/bosphorus_tr
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/nurcer

Check for your images ...

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2022, 11:19 »

Thanks for pointing these bizarre portfolios out - I say bizarre as they're such a mixture of styles and subjects it beggars belief that these came from one person. And for bosphorus_tr, we have such glories as "Marry Chrismas" on a seasonal image and "Election Day - The third of the November -" (and it was in 2020 that it was November 3rd). There are white gaps on the edges of some of the composites; squished birds; sideways clouds - even if this stuff wasn't stolen, lots of it should never have been accepted!

I didn't find anything of mine, but did you report the ones of yours to Shutterstock compliance?

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2022, 12:23 »

This is from bosphorus_tr

Marry christmas design tree vector illustration and balloons.

Roscoe · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2022, 16:43 »

Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 20, 2022, 12:23

This is from bosphorus_tr

Marry christmas design tree vector illustration and balloons.

Lol. What a joke.
Love it how the Shutterstock watermark blends in perfectly.
Marry Shutterstock, Christmas!

Brasilnut · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2022, 04:02 »

Quote from: palagarde on March 20, 2022, 08:44

I saw several of my images stolen by theses contributors :

Nice you saw several. I see 100s of stolen portfolios still operating.

Digital · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2022, 04:03 »

What's wrong with this image? I wouldn't upload anything better for the $0.10 they pay...

Noedelhap · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2022, 06:06 »

You can see how initially they start out with "original" ideas like this:

And then they're like: "why doesn't this sell?" before resorting to stealing images and crudely stitching some images together in Photoshop.

Artist · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2022, 06:24 »

and SS approving this

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/ilustration-graphic-vector-balckgold-moon-2137525557

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Dikynovians

Hannafate · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2022, 08:24 »

This thread is like seeing an ex dealing drugs in a parking lot.

Makes me glad I left, but also ticks me off that they're still getting away with stuff.

thx9000 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2022, 08:38 »

Quote from: Artist on March 21, 2022, 06:24

and SS approving this

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/ilustration-graphic-vector-balckgold-moon-2137525557

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Dikynovians

"Ilustration" and "Balckgold" in the description. SS has really dropped the ball

palagarde · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2022, 14:07 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on March 20, 2022, 11:19

I didn't find anything of mine, but did you report the ones of yours to Shutterstock compliance?

Yes, I did it today.
Apparently they make very poor collages with differents images including mines.
I don't spend time to search for stolen images (too depressive), but I find without searching... here I was looking of the keywords of one of my image on the shutterstock page and I saw the stolen images in the similar images.

palagarde · « **Reply #11 on:** December 13, 2022, 09:42 »

Again,

A portfolio full of stolen images. I saw 2 of mine, reported to Shutterstock.

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Silverszay

Check for yours ...

Wilm · « **Reply #12 on:** December 13, 2022, 10:04 »

This portfolio is also full of stolen images. Many of them are mirrored.
Since I am not affected, I unfortunately cannot report this to shutterstock.

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/g/nguyen+thi+phuong+dieu

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #13 on:** December 13, 2022, 12:35 »

Quote from: palagarde on December 13, 2022, 09:42

Again,

A portfolio full of stolen images. I saw 2 of mine, reported to Shutterstock.

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Silverszay

Check for yours ...

They started with three images and then the rest are probably all stolen. Here's image #1 "Joe Biden's homeland. Rivers in the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia"

The Sunflower images look like AI.

palagarde · « **Reply #14 on:** July 20, 2023, 03:32 »

A portfolio full of stolen images and videos.

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/shahriar_ovi

his portfolio on freepick... https://www.freepik.com/author/shahriarovi

UPDATE : Portfolio gone after DMCA on both site
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kuriouskat · « **Reply #15 on:** July 23, 2023, 07:26 »

Quote from: palagarde on July 20, 2023, 03:32

A portfolio full of stolen images and videos.

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/shahriar_ovi

his portfolio on freepick... https://www.freepik.com/author/shahriarovi

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Links no longer lead to portfolios, so it seems he's gone.

palagarde · « **Reply #16 on:** July 23, 2023, 12:34 »

Quote

Links no longer lead to portfolios, so it seems he's gone.

Yes, 1 day for Freepick, 3 days for Shutterstock.

kuriouskat · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2023, 05:23 »

Quote from: palagarde on July 23, 2023, 12:34

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Links no longer lead to portfolios, so it seems he's gone.

Yes, 1 day for Freepick, 3 days for Shutterstock.

Great - at least that's a good response time.

kuriouskat · « **Reply #18 on:** August 01, 2023, 13:19 »

Another suspect account:

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/GHULAM+FATIMA+ARSHAD

Everyone might want to check out this one.

Also, check the first two links to this dog image, from the above portfolio, as they are also copied. The third image in the similars below, links to the legitimate owner, who has a whole sequence of other images from the same shoot. I thought there was software in place to pick this up?

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/vibrant-colors-lush-greenery-glistening-waters-2328710933

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2023, 14:23 »

Nothing of mine, but everything I checked was stolen from someone else. Examples:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/energetic-expressive-graceful-movements-captured-mesmerizing-2333224585
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dance-gm180835809-25133212

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/data-science-images-reveal-synergy-algorithms-2333217599
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/scientist-protecting-data-via-encryption-app-gm970438352-264413081

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/vibrant-colors-lush-greenery-glistening-waters-2328710941
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/hello-summer-concept-letters-carved-watermelon-782476204
https://depositphotos.com/184851914/stock-photo-hello-summer-concept-letters-carved.html

This one is a doozy - it's been stolen multiple times. I believe Javier Brosch is the real owner:

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/damedeeso
http://javierbrosch.com/
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/jack-russell-dog-sitting-on-inflatable-298920140

Here's the thief's image (the one reported above)

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/vibrant-colors-lush-greenery-glistening-waters-2328710933

And here are other SS copies of this image by other thieves

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/beach-summer-dog-cruising-on-river-2325642901
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/jack-russell-dog-on-ocean-sea-2318045133

And does SS notice this? The "similar images" soon will be full of nothing but copies of Javier's work

I sent email to Javier (using his website) to let him know about the thieves, suggesting he contact Shutterstock compliance

kuriouskat · « **Reply #20 on:** August 02, 2023, 02:10 »

Thanks, Jo Ann - I was going to search for contact details for the legitimate owner today. You have saved me the trouble

kuriouskat · « **Reply #21 on:** August 03, 2023, 05:30 »

And here's another one to check:

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Graphicshoot01

This guy has over 2k images

This:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/golden-greek-aphrodite-goddess-illustration-pattern-2182221397

Is taken from Vecteezy here:

https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/167365-aphrodite-ancient-greek-logo-vector

This:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/five-rat-characters-cartoon-style-2246317579

Taken from another Shutterstock contributor here:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/five-rat-characters-cartoon-style-different-1579875472

Not only that, but his most popular image has had 'Versace' added to the description and keywords, and he's uploading two identical files as JPG and EPS. Where is the filter to stop this from happening? If I tried that, I'd get one rejected, for sure.

It's very hard to try and earn if you are keeping within the rules here. It seems the thieves and cheats are largely getting away with everything these days.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #22 on:** August 03, 2023, 15:10 »

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #23 on:** August 08, 2023, 15:05 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on August 03, 2023, 15:10

Edited to add: I reported this to Adobe and the stolen portfolio has been taken down.

And another thief - a very familar-looking genAI Halloween image which appears to be stolen from another genAI portfolio. There are so many look-alike Halloween images, but these are identical. The thief's portfolio is small, so it's possible that more of the images than the ones I identified using Adobe Stock's find similar feature.

Originals (earlier image numbers)

https://stock.adobe.com/images/spooky-dark-halloween-background-illustration-ai-generative/602147211
https://stock.adobe.com/images/spooky-dark-halloween-background-illustration-ai-generative/602147425
https://stock.adobe.com/images/spooky-halloween-background-illustration-ai-generative/604460502
https://stock.adobe.com/images/spooky-dark-halloween-background-illustration-ai-generative/602147226

Copies

https://stock.adobe.com/images/spooky-dark-halloween-background-illustration/625143619
https://stock.adobe.com/images/spooky-dark-halloween-background-illustration/625143408
https://stock.adobe.com/images/halloween-spooky-background-illustration-ai-generative/625144105
https://stock.adobe.com/images/spooky-dark-halloween-illustration/625143168

For giggles, look at the find similar results, genAI only, for the first illustration. It's a mind-bending display of derivative work.

If I can identify these using the Find Similar feature, so can the Adobe review process. This should never have seen the light of day.

Machine Learning has a limited base and after it learns what the "right" image is supposed to look like, then it will make more that look similar. I think we should all be seeing how results for many varied prompts, can come down to, what the AI thinks is the best result, so it starts to repeat that best result, with minor variations.

Biggest problem still is AI doesn't understand how things work, it just understands matching and creating new from the old.

GIGO weak prompts will give equally poor, similar images.

palagarde · « **Reply #24 on:** December 27, 2023, 04:34 »

Two portfolio full of stolen images. I saw some of mine, reported to Shutterstock.

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/TwoDeeGraphix
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Uzair00

Check for yours ...

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