I just got in... Had to reread what you wrote below to see the terms of chasing down perps (50%) I had a little under 2,000 hits - most of these are smugmug and cafepress which are legal - and a few false positives too among my design images - and one scary one so far
Wrote them to ask how I filter out the tons of legal ones and waiting for reply
thanks for pointing it out ann On 1/9/2016 7:06 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
You may have heard about the photographer discovering that one of his images had been appropriated by ISIS for propaganda purposes. What you may not have paid attention to is the service that alerted him of the violation: Pixsy http://www.pixsy.com/what-to-do-when-isis-steals-your-photo/ I had signed up some time ago for a Pixsy invite but apparently missed it when it came. However today I noticed a reminder email from them and used the invitation. I am very impressed with their algorithm's ability to find where your images are posted. I just fed them my Flickr account and they (very quickly) about 25 pages full of links with my image and the suspected image. There were a lot of images that they found on places where I had posted them (like forum.mflenses.com, pentaxforums.com, etc.) and there were a lot of inexplicable false positives, they also found a good number of actual unauthorized uses by businesses and organizations. What was ESPECIALLY impressive was that their algorithm found my image inside composite images that had been made by the infringer, one case where the infringed usage of the image was somewhat cropped, and another where it was used in a slider graphic and faded out to one side (in otherwords, my image, but modified by the infinger. This was pretty impressive! You can submit a claim with Pixsy and they will negotiate a licensing fee with the infringer and pay the photographer 50%. However, since they are new, I can't find any info on how much those negotitated fees might actually be. So for now, I plan to use Pixsy simply as my "bloodhound" and turn the infringements over to a real copyright/photo attorney. It may be slower, but I don't think attorney's charge THAT much unless they actually go to court, and being attorneys I'll bet they get higher amounts than Pixsy will. (At least two of my infringers are pretty big name web sites). Here is the Pixsy blog: https://www.pixsy.com/blog/ An article from fstoppers from back in March: https://fstoppers.com/business/exclusive-sneak-peek-inside-pixsy-beta-60219 https://www.pixsy.com/sign-up/ In addition to negotiation licenses, you can also quickly issue a DCMA takedown notice using images that Pixsy finds that belong to you. Hope someone finds this useful.
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