Pixsy match and how to handle it?

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Hi all

I have a Pixsy match come up and their automated resolution says something not suitable for commercial action, consider sending Takedown Notice.

It has been grabbed from my 500px account where downloads are not permitted and for the casual accessor 'right click' is disabled.

It is hosted on a "wallpaper" sharing site as a download for personal use only. Also, having done an image search is on another such site on both that ones English & Spanish versions.

It just peeves me that such sites grab or accept images without permission let alone attribution :(

Now Pixsy has their own Takedown Notice tool but is worth doing, or more trouble than it is worth???

TIA
 
Not worth the hassle as it will probably get ignored anyway . The only worthwhile ones are where companies have stolen used your image .. I have sued quiet a few via pixsy and made a few 4 figure sums , but over the years the thief’s have got cleverer and now seem to to host or hot link the photo instead ..
One smart arse in Hong Kong was using my photos to sell canon lenses by hot linking his adverts to my Flickr photos stream … no idea how they do it but every time you find a way to stop it they find a way round it
 
I've had a few matches from similar sites, mostly seem to be from Russia or China which means little or no prospect of anything happening even if you submit a takedown notice.

These days, anything on pinterest or similar I just flag as ignore as it's not worth any more effort in trying to pursue things. What may happen is that another company will use it in the future, and you can pursue them through pixsy (or copytrack), as there's no defence for I found it on the internet so it must be OK to use for free.
 
My last claim through Pixsy was against a UK company and Pixsy just couldn't get anything from them ... not really too sure how hard they tried! :oops: :$
 
Box Brownie said:
It is hosted on a "wallpaper" sharing site as a download for personal use only. Also, having done an image search is on another such site on both that ones English & Spanish versions.
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From experience it is not worth a second more of your time.
 
gramps said:
My last claim through Pixsy was against a UK company and Pixsy just couldn't get anything from them ... not really too sure how hard they tried! :oops: :$
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I had one claim eventually paid through pixsy - they did try to circumvent them by approaching me directly but I felt they were playing games and it was just a way to get the forceful approach from pixsy out of the equation.
There are various other matches some I am not happy about but the one I initiated claim was an insurance company using it so fair game IMO they should know better.
 
gramps said:
My last claim through Pixsy was against a UK company and Pixsy just couldn't get anything from them ... not really too sure how hard they tried! :oops: :$
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I've had a couple like that, the other (UK) party's just stopped communicating.
Pixsy had "promised" the images were worth well into 4 figures.
And what ever their cut is...

I get a lot of "hits" from around the world, apparently out of their ( Pixsy's) jurisdiction.
I just CBA anymore, I delete, unread, any communication from them now.
 
Cobra said:
I've had a couple like that, the other (UK) party's just stopped communicating.
Pixsy had "promised" the images were worth well into 4 figures.
And what ever their cut is...

I get a lot of "hits" from around the world, apparently out of their ( Pixsy's) jurisdiction.
I just CBA anymore, I delete, unread, any communication from them now.
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Same here, although some here have apparently benefited, my view is that if they can't crack a UK company what's the point?
 
I'm sanguine about reuse of any images that I put on the 'net, but then that's because I don't make my living out of them (or even, regular pocket money). What I find worrying is these companies methods and mode of existence which - as the narrative above supports - rarely seems to work in favour of the rights owner. From the other perspective, Mrs Ham is a member of a local quilting group, about 30 members and, in her 60's, Mrs Ham is one of the younger ones. Their website is not heavily trafficked as you may imagine. Someone used a low res image from Google image search (about 300 x 200) to illustrate a "news" story aout how a meeting had been cancelled because of snow. They came after them, causing a significant amount of distress, and they settled for something like £150 (original charge was £500 or so). Whilst that was a technical copyright breach, an appropriate remedy would have been simply to take down.
 
Thanks all for the thoughts and insights.

Seems very much such instances as I have had, that c'est la vie is the only answer!
 
Anyone else had an email from Pixsy about a password issue?

We have been informed of an IT issue that we have promptly addressed. We have examined our logs and can find no evidence that this was used or exploited on any accounts, nor was your data altered or impacted.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have invalidated your password, meaning you will need to reset your password when you next log in to Pixsy.
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gramps said:
Anyone else had an email from Pixsy about a password issue?
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Had the same message this morning as well into my spam folder, i then went into pixsy from my normal bookmark and the password has expired.
 
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same here and still playing up I'll wait a couple of weeks and try again
 
YES -- I had the Password E-mail -- it looked 'Authentic' enough so I changed it I have had several 'Travel Photos' off FLICKR used in Travel Brochures but I never persued it .
 
I had it too, but as Pixsy have failed a couple of times to come good, after promising a 4 figure sum payout,
I'll just ignore it, as I have been doing with the rest of their emails
 
Yes, I have received such an email.

No hurry from me as I usually do a "forgotten password" when/as needed to access Pixsy.
 
I got it today too.

I get a few hits on Pixsy, but mainly Pinterest, which they can f all about, or in country's they aren't able to do anything about. :rolleyes::headbang:
 
redhed17 said:
I got it today too.

I get a few hits on Pixsy, but mainly Pinterest, which they can f all about, or in country's they aren't able to do anything about. :rolleyes::headbang:
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I got a lot of those too, but when its a large UK concern that stopped communicating, with Pixsy, and there was also nothing they could do
(Apparently) I just lost all faith in them.
 
Cobra said:
I got a lot of those too, but when its a large UK concern that stopped communicating, with Pixsy, and there was also nothing they could do
(Apparently) I just lost all faith in them.
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Me too.
 
I've not checked my pixsy for quite some time and in just doing so I'm gobsmacked how many of my images have been used. Some are just on blogs, pinterest types of sites and things like this so no financial gain, however one particular image has been used on various amazon sites around the globe. I have asked for them to take it down but don't expect anything to come from it.
 
Regarding when the images are hotlinked to where you are hosting the image - I read of a similar thing where some bloke posted something on Facebook and the Daily Mail ran an online article about it, hotlinking the FB post. The bloke heavily edited his post so that it became a commentary as to why the Daily Mail is an awful newspaper. This worked for a while but next time they nabbed one of his posts, they used a screen-shot instead of a hotlink.
 
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