Whilst browsing eBay...

Ewan Hitchcoe said:
Wow didnt actually realise how rampant theft is from flickr. I dont even have many images on there but just image searched a couple to find they are being used extensively by hd desktop background sites. Pretty annoying, they dont give any credit and although they might not be selling the images im sure the sites make money through ads etc
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I'm not sure if it came from Flickr. I have my own Smugmug site as well and just noticed that not all the galleries were locked down to block full-res images, so it could have been taken from there.

Lesson learned, either way!
 
spartagates said:
Ah, your best bet is to become a multi-national company such chanel, gucci or rolex then you can join their "Vero" scheme where you can have anything pulled on nothing more than a whim.... Rant over.
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Off-topic but I spent about a month going back and forth with Ebay when they removed an item of mine for sale. They admitted they hadn't looked at the item they'd removed, didn't actually know what the rights of third parties were (their actual words) and said they were lawfully obliged to remove said item.

When I asked for the specific law to which they were referring to, I got a reply saying:

"We were obliged to remove the item."

Genius! On the plus side, I ended up selling the item on Amazon with no problems ;)
 
simon ess said:
Right click on image

Copy image url

Open google image search

Click on camera icon

Paste url

:thumbs:
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Gutted. I just googled a few of my more popular flickr images and more or less none have been considered worthy of stealing! A portugese lady is using my picture of a lego storm trooper in a particularly boring blog though. Bet her blog will be more interesting when my bill for $1,000,000 lands on her doorstep :)
 
sdavada said:
What's the latest on this, have you managed to take this further as theft?
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Emails and invoices were sent, no replies (unsurprisingly), I was about to go through eBay, but I got very poorly in hospital so never got to do it.

When I got home from hospital (a few weeks ago) I found it for sale elsewhere, including a Chinese seller on eBay selling split canvases of it. At that point I was fed up of it all and decided it would never be worth trying to track and deal with every instance of infringement.

More out of curiosity than anything I've decided to fire off a couple of VeRO forms to eBay today (they have to be faxed!) so I will see what happens with that.
 
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