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natse · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:21 pm

This is total rip-off and reviewers must be notified:

K Pargeter:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-1981538-winter-background.html

AND: Kailash Soni
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-7719727-an-exclusive-illustration-graphics-in-green-white-shade.html

varius · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:30 pm

Contact support, if you havn't already.

natse · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:00 pm

I reckon it could be interesting to learn exactly what is Shutterstock's policy on people who steal images like that...

crashoran · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 203 Location: Austin, Tx

If you can't prove it's yours, then they permanently ban you. The copier might have made his version on his own, but each stroke is in the exact same place

Photoshow · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:35 pm

bada bump, bump, bump, bump another one bites the dust!

kenny123 · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:47 pm

Best way to be able to prove it's yours: submit a cropped version for review and sale, keep full area version, so you can show where the image was cropped from. Regards, Ken

rinder99 · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:47 am

varius · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:14 am

Just for the record: I've sent SethO a link to this thread. I expect he did get many such PMs, but since noone said he's send one, I thought better send one more in case noone did...

luisfico · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:30 am

mtrebbin · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 947 Location: Location: Locaton:

That's a very good idea to crop the vectors! If you have unprocessed photos shot in RAW, prooving you're the owner should be no problem.

my2ct ;)
Martin

medveh · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 1824 Location: Transylvania

I don't get why people do anything like that... They risk all the profit they could have gotten without stealing.

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9338 Location: Never quite sure

dapoopta · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:54 am

How do you find things like this? There are so many images out there, how would you know if you stuff got stolen?

sammyc · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:15 am

Have you considered that it may be made by a with a series of filters or tools, or perhaps even a tutorial program. There is a "small" likelyhood that this wasn't a straight ripoff

natse · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:35 pm

[quote="sammyc"]Have you considered that it may be made by a with a series of filters or tools, or perhaps even a tutorial program. There is a "small" likelyhood that this wasn't a straight ripoff[/quote]

I do agree, of course. This original image is one of the Top 50 Ever, so it's quite easy to find. Maybe it's just pure coinsidence that the 2 images seem pretty much the same, except the colours and the fact that the 1st is a vector. I honestly would have thought that this sort of similarity shouldn't be allowed. But it seems that maybe it is ok, because the user wasn't banned, both images are active. Well maybe that's the way to go- look up Top 50, create the same image, change colous and off you go. By the way , the user in question also has a few more images in his port made using other people's images.

1: OnFocus
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-3370089-floral-background.html

2.
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-7981870-vector-image.html

Much the same , except for colour, and the 2nd been turned around. Another coinsidence?
Well, perhaps, it is non of my business anyhow, it is just that i feel that had someone been so CLOSELY 'inspired' by my own designs, i would have been less than amused.And afterall it is just wrong for people to think that it's OK to copy...ok, i shut up