Im so tired of share accounts. I really wish instagram wouldnt flood the explore page with then. It pisses me off. Especially all the woodworking ones who sell plans, and they are using others images.
In the US photographs are protected by copyright from the moment of creation. Taking the additional steps to get them copyrighted is a bonus step but you are not required to do that.
@@moneekaayrenae That's not quite true. If you're in the US you need to register the works in order to file an infringement suit. You still retain copyright, but the amount you can claim is only what you'd normally charge for the photo, rather than anything involving damages. It's complicated and annoying. You can read more here: www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
You are more forgiving than I'am. I do go after people who steal or use my images without my permission, for me its the principle. I have one one taken off my website and the watermark removed, one company used my images off facebook but I contacted that company, turned out they really didn't understand the "rules" now they are a client. I don't post my good stuff online, the one time I don't mind someone using my images without paying are the times I donate my time taking photographs for charity organizations.
Thanks for this video Brendan! I have this exact thing happen to me by unlimited-croatia (assume it's the same dodgy company). They've been reposting an image over and over for over a year, and giving me wrong credits in description. I messaged them, but they've just ignored it. I figured I couldn't be bothered to do anything more, but I'll try what you did 👍🏻
It takes a couple of copyright strikes per day for over a month before an account gets banned. Learned that from one of my coworkers that "borrows" images everyday for promo spam accounts.
There are countless times I fail to submit a report just because of the hassle I have to go through! It happened to me again this morning!Same thing, "Congratulations @Calvinseah", went through the process without second thought. By the way, the offended content isn't taken down immediately, it's just hidden from you. If you have copied the link to the content you can still see that it's still live on the account. Now I will see how long it take for Instagram to take it down. *Update: Instagram took it down after 10 mins I've reported, that's fast!
Thank you Brendan for sharing this video and also taking time to make it. I needed some help with a similar issue and found the information you provided here helpful and greatly appreciated. Once again, a big THANK YOU!!!
I've become so suspicious of social media that I no longer share my best work on Instagram or the Internet in general. I even had a video stolen off UA-cam but they shut it down after I filed a copyright infringement claim. The time stamp was key.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! someone used my workout progress picture for their keto and diet plans they are promoting and i did not give them my permission and they did not take it down after i messaged them to kindly remove it. i didnt know how to report it so this video was so so so helpful!!!
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Calvin Klein stole my photo and posted on their instagram a month ago. More than 200 people commented on their post with my photo to tag me as photographer and Calvin Klein just ignored : (
The last two times I copyright claimed my image stolen by others Instagram replied the image in question wasn't similar or the one I owned and took zero action. They we're identical. I have zero faith in Instagram doing the right thing or their copywright protection for users. Same has happened for Facebook.
If IG or FB doesn't remove your image as they claim it's not the same, they are now liable for damages in federal court for registered images in addition to the actual idiot who posted it.
Instagram is currently not helping me either. They keep asking me to send the url then they claimed there was no evidence it was promoted on Instagram even though I clearly sent them the link of the person who stole my picture and posted on her Instagram page.
This is happening to me right now with Facebook. I sent them the link of where apparently some girl won a photo contest with my image and the link on my page of the original post. I also sent them a screenshot of the Lightroom showing the exif data and my copyright. facebook said they could not determine if I was the photographer.
Well said. We spend a lot of time putting together our pictures/stories etc for promoting our own content so its hard when someone else takes credit for that image.
Morgan Bardon It’s very hard. The issue is most people are just jumping on the social media bandwagon to bump their page views, nothing else. Most don’t even see value in taking images, they’re just wrapped up in a social media mindset... Now. If someone’s making money off something you’ve created, that’s not cool. That’s a plagerism and just a dick move.
Yep, and how do you think Facebook made $16.6 BILLION dollars in the last four months of the year?! I’ll tell you how, but getting a crap ton of free content.
Great topic man! Very searchable as well. . . . So when you said you’ll be taking pictures with new toys, it gave me a mental image that I can’t unsee. Thanks 😤
Thanks Brendan. I'm both a photographer & SM Manager, and am *always* guiding the clients on image rights - think I'll just send those that look at me in disbelief this video 😅😎💪👏
This is actually a great example of how Instagram don't act on genuine valid reports and don't take copywrite seriously. Your image is still on their account, still advertising their service. Instagram have done nothing despite telling you it's been "dealt with" (when it seemed to you to disappear, it's likely Instagram just blocked that image from you, rather than removing it)
This was helpful. I’m a fitness influencer and use my IG as advertising and motivation to help build my coaching services. Recently I’ve been battling with Facebook after finding out someone has been using my images to catfish women. This person has scammed over $600 out of one women. It’s gotten to the point where I didn’t know what to do. Filed the DMCA, explained my situation and within 12 hrs, Facebook had access to the fake account removed.
I agree with you completely, it's your work your time, money, effort and energy. You are a profession and do this for a living, you have every right to the earnings from your work. I would have like to hear you say you were monetarily compensated for the use of your photo, you deserve it. Years ago a fellow craftsman saw a unique piece of functioning woodwork/artwork i was just finishing and asked me If he could have a copy of the plans to make one for himself. Reluctantly I agreed, but with the stipulation that he build only one for himself and that he not build anymore, that he did not post or sell my plans, that he not make any to sell or give away as I was planning to make and sell them on my website. Almost a year later not only did I find he was making and selling them on ebay, he even used my pictures from my website since they where much nicer and showed better detail. I sued him in small claims court and won a judgement against him for $3000. i had a tough time proving our verbal agreement, but once he admitted to stealing my website pictures and did use them without my permission the judge agreed that he did infact steal my intellectual property and had no permission to reproduce them. he was issued a cease and desist order and to pay the max. $3000 in compesation. I have yet to see a penny of the $3K. Winning it is one thing, trying to collect the money from a civil judgement was damn near impossible without more lawyers and fees.
Why don't you just give this case to a lawyer? Much easier and a standard rate for this kind of usage is around 150-600USD respectively your standard rate.
Brendon, both examples are profiting by marketing your product (images) for their commercial gain. The first one, has published your name which I can see a trade off.
Well Brendan I was in this situation countless times. What amazed me that there were few accounts that didn't bothered to credit me, mention me, and the worst, almost all images on their feed were mine. I can't say that Instagram (their employee) didn't reacted in a couple of hours but what annoyed me is that they wanted proof (link to mine images) of all the stolen photos. Once I had to copy/paste 50 URLs. I get that they need to do that for 2 or 3 or 5 photos, but when you see that someone took all the images, I think that the ban was the only solution. Or to freeze the account until they (owner of the account) deletes all the photos he/she stole. And this topic always makes me a bit mad...
Hey i am a part time photographer i did a free photoshoot and asked the client to give me credit on instagram and tag me. Now he's not responding. The whole reason for the free photoshoots is to grow my audience and to start charging my clients later on. But my image is getting tons of likes without me being credited. And i haven't posted that picture so i wanted to ask that can i still report that image or not? I can prove that i took that picture... Is is in my DSLR SD Card and i can share screenshots of me sending him the image on whatsapp.
Thanks Brendan!! Teachers, such as yourself, are a blessing to us that want to learn or review what we have learned. I consider your site, along with certain other professionals on You Tube, to be an outstanding source of instruction and information in regards to photography.
Alasdair MacKenzie they make a lot of money by people uploading other creator’s content. So it’s not in their interest to change things. That’s why we need to be vigilant about reporting this and not letting people get away with it. Some personalities make millions from their social media activity, they can afford to pay for photography.
I’ve always been concerned about this. I started “branding” my images on Instagram last year to make it more difficult for them to do this. I see a lot of new accounts reusing the same images over and over again. I know they are trying to build the account so they can sell it. Building someone else’s account is not why I post.
There are licenses to specify exactly the artists' will. Why don't you use Creative Commons on your content? CC attribution non-commercial exists exactly for the scenario you described with Starbucks. Instagram doesn't allow you to specify a license. But flickr does. We were so better off with that... it's like we took several steps back and forgot there are better alternatives.
I have an online business and I was going through my tags right before I made my Instagram ad and I saw my tag on someone else’s page. I clicked on it and went through their page and saw that they stole my picture of me wearing my necklace that I was promoting and tried to pass it off as theirs. I reported it to Instagram and exposed them all over social media.
I'm an aviation photographer and have the same problem. My pics have been stolen and used for everything from being published withOUT me knowing it, stickers, T-SHIRTS! and put on other web sites with watermarks removed and that photo claimed to be taken by said other person.
I made a picture for a merchandise competition and I ofcourse was wearing a longsleeve from a band. I posted the picture on Instagram with the band tagged both in the picture and the description. My face was ofcourse in the picture and I was still 16 at that time. They posted the picture on both their Instagram and Facebook (I don't even have Facebook) with no credits to me. And the post was like this longsleeve is still on sale get it now. So it was commercial. I messaged the band that I was happy they liked the picture but asked if they could give me credit. They dodged the question very weird. And I sent them a message again and they still doged it. Then I emailed their manager. Explained what happened and asked if he could give me credits on the picture or delete the picture. I didn't get a email back after 2 weeks. In this time I also reported it on Instagram but they didn't do anything about it. I decided to email their record label. And formally explained what happened again and asked if they could give me credits or take down the pictures. I didn't get a response for over a week. After this I sent them another formal email that was almost the same as the last one but with me explaining how they are violating my rights and if I don't get any response back I would be forced to take legal actions even tho I didn't want that because I supported them as a label. Then finally I got an email back after just a few hours from the actual CEO. And it went something like this: are you serious threatening to take legal actions because you aren't tagged in an instagram picture, no wonder you haven't got an email back, get over yourself and just report it. It wasn't a formal email but just that. And i also wrote in the email I already reported it but Facebook and Instagram didn't do a thing. After all of this shit my friends helped me by commenting on the picture saying they should take it down. Not only because they stole my pictures but also because I am a minor. And after all this drama I still feel bad about this. And I no longer can listen to their music and the band from the CEO (yeas the CEO is actually in a band himself). And because my face was in the picture I am still afraid till this day they are going to give me crap if I ever go to a tour with multiple bands and them being one of them. I hope someone can maybe give me advice. And BTW now all the picture are taken off by Instagram and facebook
Honestly these are great tips. However it seems as though insgram doesn't even try to remove stolen images. I tried filing a DMCA file and they don't do any action.
Great video Brendan thanks for sharing your experience and the how to report it. I'm fortunate I tend to have other Instagram accounts ask and credit with no commercial use allowed works out OK.
Why wouldn't you reach out to them first to seek compensation? They may be interested in using that image for other marketing mediums. Now you have a new client. If not then copyright strike them.
Yeah it was for an iPhone case. Since it was in a different country it was much more complicated. In the end they were reimbursed but not as much as they would have liked due to extensive legal fees.
Instagram is so disappointing... Yesterdey morning i've posted a picture from Osorno volcano, in Puerto Varas. I have almost 2k followers, and i've got 90 likes in the picture. Yesterday night a repost account with 1k followers reposted my picture, with the same #'s, and immediatly got to explore page, and got 400+ likes till now... So in addition to the instagram let people steal images, it still shows more the account that stole an image....
I have someone that had stolen some of my images from my IG account, this method is no longer available so how would you report someone for stealing my work. Thanks so much
Hi Brandon, we are lucky, in Canada, you press the shutter, you have automatically the ownership of the copyright of the photo, since the law change in 2012 in Canada. Think in the states you have 3 month to register your photo for copyright. in Europe , some country if you use continuas shooting ( not sure of the therm ) , it's not consider art, so you can't copyright your photo ( base on some cases ) it a complicated subject. I agree with you, we should all have a line that we need to keep. thanks for sharing your story. love this.
@@cnlicnli thanks for the details, it help to understand. no need in canada to register your photo, you are fully protected as soon as you press the shutter.
@@cnlicnli as a US citizen you are bound by all international agreement US as sign, international copyright too... so I am protected cause US need to respect and recognize canada copyright protected materiel... like Canadien has to respect and recognize US copyright materiel. ( my english is not that great, not my first language, but I think you will get the idea ). There is a lot of jurisprudence ( precedent ). check with a lawyer if you need more info, I'm not but those are the base we learn in school about international law. Tony and Chelsa have made a video about them taking to justice an Australien company that took there photo without permission... verry interesting, check it out
Good insight. I'm currently going through this process right now, although the account still has the image up. I've submitted this report but got feedback from Instagram that it needed further review despite including link and original JPEG to Instagram reporting process. The image even has watermark on. The offending account obviously doesn't care either as they blocked my account previously when I asked them to include photo credit and continue to post my images among other photographers.
Interesting video.... there is a flip side to this. Your example of a cup of coffee, the Starbucks logo on the cup is owned by Starbucks. Back.... in the day of film... photographers needed release forms of products, like the Starbucks coffee, when displaying photos either for money or not. Photographers don’t realize some of the items that they post to social media are copyrighted items, which require a release form.
Someone who makes his living shooting photographs must copyright his work. If he then takes a public position where he may or may not enforce his rights depending on how he interprets the uses of theft, he practically waives any right to complain about such theft.
Is it possible to use other photos of other users give the caption for whose it is and tag them. But use my own lightroom preset? I don't want to do something that is not right to do.
I had someone steal my image and used the same hashtags as me and that was how I found it. When I looked her up she worked for a marketing firm. I was pretty shocked. When I reached out to her she blocked me. So i filed a copyright infringement and they removed it from her profile in less than 24 hrs
Brendan, they have done the same thing with one of my images for Unlimited San Francisco. They actually repost it all the time. It even has the same caption as the one you showed. I would complain, at the same time I figure it is helping me attract followers on IG. So I guess I am torn if I should do anything about it...
Q. What r d guidelines for old photos floating on internet eg. I do a Google search for marylin monroe n find one. How do I know whose d original photographer if it's not mentioned. N d photo says it's under common creative license
What if these turkeys block me - I've DMed them, and filed a copyright violation with IG, nothing happened and they've taken lots of photos and they dont seem to care.
Great advice mate, I’ve had about 10 of mine taken and re-popped and I’ve messaged and miraculously they have credited me. I haven’t filed yet but 1 individual hasn’t changed or credited so really useful info and I reckon I will be doing this!! Cheers Jase
Exactly!!!!!! Im on the same page. I dont have time to argue with pages on ig for stealing my images. Instant report and ig is very fast and effective in removing the image. If this pisses people off they're in the wrong. I do think its crazy though that people think they can take anything they so desire to benefit themselves. They obviously do not appreciate or respect the artist
I'll make you laugh a little bit: some weeks ago I posted an image on a facebook group. A "Sir" copied and turned it into BW and reposted as is it was shot by himself. I recognize it, i wrote a private message and the answer left me with my mouth open. "You did the photo, but I did the re edit, since the fact the the re edit into BW got more likes than the original, means that my re edit works better, so my vision of your photo is mine. No way!" It was like throwing gasoline on fire… I let you imagine the hell I unleashed. This tought me that no one is safe when post an image over a social media. Sad but True!
Fire back then.I would leave a message on his FB space saying this douche is a fraud by stealing tour property.Then you leave your link where everyone will check it out. Trust me,everyone will go and believe you.You probably have to do few times until he gets tired of you.Fight for it man.I would do it.Send message to FB team as well.Serves him right to mess with you.😉
What is this guy talking about. Most creators are happy that some pages share their work is basically a win/win situation. They are giving them free exposure.
some person stole all my content and cropped my logo and @ on all my photos/videos - hope instagram takes them down. they got 10k followers from just my stuff
I agree to a point, but if the image was special and not just a caption shot , in order to protect copyrights , you are required to defend them, or they are void, Hence why they cannot revoke Dan Snyders for the Washington Redskins , because he actively defends it against violations.
Other than happening to see your image on another account how would you know it was taken? Is there a tool other than doing Google image search on all your images?
That's the battle. And maybe the option is to stop posting. If Instagram doesn't respect users, and original content creator's, we should stop using the platform.
An “influencer” got Instagram to take down a video I posted where I DISCUSSED the “influencer’s” photo...Yes, a video of ME talking about a photo. Yes, you could see the photo in the video, I was holding my phone in my hand with the photo displayed. And Instagram sided with the “influencer” and removed MY content without question...
Brendan van Son it absolutely was fair use, or fair deal here in the UK. I blogged about the whole affair www.postable.co.uk/blog/copyright-infringements-frustrations-of-the-digital-life
I don't use Instagram because (unless it's changed) Instagram has the right to use your images anywhere in the world for whatever they want and it can also give those rights to a third party without asking you. Is that not just the same as what the person you carried out the copyright infringement did to you? The only difference is out of the kindness of their hearts Instagram did something about it , I guess if it was they that used your image they wouldn't do anything, that's just a guess tho.
I've seen facebook editing groups where people have been illegally removing copyrighted watermarks and logos and worst of all most times they are stealing the images from a business page Ive been calling people out for doing this and I've even gone as far as taking photos and then I will go and then contact the owner of the photos and i will attached the evidence of them stealing their photos and than having the copyright watermark illegally removed there was a person on another site who said he steals other peoples work that they have spent days working on and then he will then go and sell the same image for a small profit its absoluty disguting
One person steals all my instagram photos for about one year and she blocked me. I didn't know about that account and one day my friend asked me '' do you have another account " I don't know what to do. I already reported ti Instagram. That person is looking girls for eskort through my pictures. (sorry for my english) I hope your instructions will help me.
It pisses me off when someone even a friend uses an image & then crops and adds cheesy filters to it.
Im so tired of share accounts. I really wish instagram wouldnt flood the explore page with then. It pisses me off. Especially all the woodworking ones who sell plans, and they are using others images.
As someone who has his work stolen on average every 4 days over the last two years here's some advice:
UK: Copyright is automatic. As soon as you click the shutter the image is your copyright. No registration is needed. If your copyright is infringed you can only claim back what the image would have licensed for.
Europe/ Canada: I believe is the same as UK. In Canada though I believe you can ask for more and I currently have a case over there.
USA: Be VERY careful here as if it goes to court your images MUST be registered with the US Copyright Office. 750 images can be registered for $55. There are two different sets of damages that can be claimed. Also be aware of things such as Fair Usage.
As far as I am aware you are not under any obligation to put copyright or © on your images either. Certainly that is the case in the UK.
NB: This is NOT legal advice.
This is exactly how I understand it too, although in the US they do recommend adding a © notice, but it's not necessary for legal action.
@@TimEasleyUK this morning I found one in the USA that has used one of my photos. It was marked with © but they just cropped it. Thankfully they were stupid enough to leave part of it on there which puts them very deeply into it!!!
In the US photographs are protected by copyright from the moment of creation. Taking the additional steps to get them copyrighted is a bonus step but you are not required to do that.
@@moneekaayrenaeif you plan on bringing a court case against someone in the USA it IS required.
@@moneekaayrenae That's not quite true. If you're in the US you need to register the works in order to file an infringement suit. You still retain copyright, but the amount you can claim is only what you'd normally charge for the photo, rather than anything involving damages. It's complicated and annoying. You can read more here: www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
You are more forgiving than I'am.
I do go after people who steal or use my images without my permission, for me its the principle.
I have one one taken off my website and the watermark removed, one company used my images off facebook but I contacted that company, turned out they really didn't understand the "rules" now they are a client.
I don't post my good stuff online, the one time I don't mind someone using my images without paying are the times I donate my time taking photographs for charity organizations.
I won't put quality images on social media for that reason.
I deleted my insta because people kept stealing my pics
Yoboydrew maybe you should create your own logo and put it on your pics
@@missbrowny2994 they will steal the logo then
Yeah some side of internet are just messed up
Put it to private ;/
What do I do if someone stole my name for Instagram impersonating me?
Thanks for this video Brendan! I have this exact thing happen to me by unlimited-croatia (assume it's the same dodgy company). They've been reposting an image over and over for over a year, and giving me wrong credits in description. I messaged them, but they've just ignored it. I figured I couldn't be bothered to do anything more, but I'll try what you did 👍🏻
Espen Helland issue a takedown notice to Instagram and wherever else they’re using it.
Did it work?
It takes a couple of copyright strikes per day for over a month before an account gets banned. Learned that from one of my coworkers that "borrows" images everyday for promo spam accounts.
Brendan, your photo is still on their IG feed, it has not been removed. Dated 21st March 2019.
cheesindave that’s ridiculous that Instagram still allows it to be on their feed.
There are countless times I fail to submit a report just because of the hassle I have to go through! It happened to me again this morning!Same thing, "Congratulations @Calvinseah", went through the process without second thought.
By the way, the offended content isn't taken down immediately, it's just hidden from you. If you have copied the link to the content you can still see that it's still live on the account.
Now I will see how long it take for Instagram to take it down.
*Update: Instagram took it down after 10 mins I've reported, that's fast!
Thank you Brendan for sharing this video and also taking time to make it. I needed some help with a similar issue and found the information you provided here helpful and greatly appreciated. Once again, a big THANK YOU!!!
I left Instagram and Twitter
I've become so suspicious of social media that I no longer share my best work on Instagram or the Internet in general. I even had a video stolen off UA-cam but they shut it down after I filed a copyright infringement claim. The time stamp was key.
They should make it that it's extremely illegal to stole someone's picture without permission and credit .
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! someone used my workout progress picture for their keto and diet plans they are promoting and i did not give them my permission and they did not take it down after i messaged them to kindly remove it. i didnt know how to report it so this video was so so so helpful!!!
Calvin Klein stole my photo and posted on their instagram a month ago. More than 200 people commented on their post with my photo to tag me as photographer and Calvin Klein just ignored : (
London Beauty Photographer have a lawyer send them a bill for twice what they’ll probably be willing to pay. Then they’ll pay half and everyone wins.
The last two times I copyright claimed my image stolen by others Instagram replied the image in question wasn't similar or the one I owned and took zero action. They we're identical. I have zero faith in Instagram doing the right thing or their copywright protection for users. Same has happened for Facebook.
If IG or FB doesn't remove your image as they claim it's not the same, they are now liable for damages in federal court for registered images in addition to the actual idiot who posted it.
Yep, I’d sue them both then. You could get a quick settlement from fb. This is their bread and butter and they aren’t going to risk their cash cow.
Instagram is currently not helping me either. They keep asking me to send the url then they claimed there was no evidence it was promoted on Instagram even though I clearly sent them the link of the person who stole my picture and posted on her Instagram page.
This is happening to me right now with Facebook. I sent them the link of where apparently some girl won a photo contest with my image and the link on my page of the original post. I also sent them a screenshot of the Lightroom showing the exif data and my copyright. facebook said they could not determine if I was the photographer.
Well said. We spend a lot of time putting together our pictures/stories etc for promoting our own content so its hard when someone else takes credit for that image.
Morgan Bardon It’s very hard. The issue is most people are just jumping on the social media bandwagon to bump their page views, nothing else. Most don’t even see value in taking images, they’re just wrapped up in a social media mindset...
Now. If someone’s making money off something you’ve created, that’s not cool. That’s a plagerism and just a dick move.
Yep, and how do you think Facebook made $16.6 BILLION dollars in the last four months of the year?! I’ll tell you how, but getting a crap ton of free content.
Great topic man! Very searchable as well.
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So when you said you’ll be taking pictures with new toys, it gave me a mental image that I can’t unsee. Thanks 😤
someone stole one of my video edits and the person I made it for saw theirs instead of mine and it made me upset
Oh ! :((
Thanks Brendan. I'm both a photographer & SM Manager, and am *always* guiding the clients on image rights - think I'll just send those that look at me in disbelief this video 😅😎💪👏
This is actually a great example of how Instagram don't act on genuine valid reports and don't take copywrite seriously. Your image is still on their account, still advertising their service. Instagram have done nothing despite telling you it's been "dealt with"
(when it seemed to you to disappear, it's likely Instagram just blocked that image from you, rather than removing it)
Can you email me a screenshot showing that you still see it?? That's incredible, if the case.
Just sent it through
This was helpful. I’m a fitness influencer and use my IG as advertising and motivation to help build my coaching services. Recently I’ve been battling with Facebook after finding out someone has been using my images to catfish women. This person has scammed over $600 out of one women. It’s gotten to the point where I didn’t know what to do. Filed the DMCA, explained my situation and within 12 hrs, Facebook had access to the fake account removed.
I agree with you completely, it's your work your time, money, effort and energy. You are a profession and do this for a living, you have every right to the earnings from your work. I would have like to hear you say you were monetarily compensated for the use of your photo, you deserve it.
Years ago a fellow craftsman saw a unique piece of functioning woodwork/artwork i was just finishing and asked me If he could have a copy of the plans to make one for himself. Reluctantly I agreed, but with the stipulation that he build only one for himself and that he not build anymore, that he did not post or sell my plans, that he not make any to sell or give away as I was planning to make and sell them on my website. Almost a year later not only did I find he was making and selling them on ebay, he even used my pictures from my website since they where much nicer and showed better detail. I sued him in small claims court and won a judgement against him for $3000. i had a tough time proving our verbal agreement, but once he admitted to stealing my website pictures and did use them without my permission the judge agreed that he did infact steal my intellectual property and had no permission to reproduce them. he was issued a cease and desist order and to pay the max. $3000 in compesation. I have yet to see a penny of the $3K. Winning it is one thing, trying to collect the money from a civil judgement was damn near impossible without more lawyers and fees.
I wish my photos were good enough for people to steal and use on their insta account 😂😂.
Thanks for the information bro. 👍👍
Some guys have blog pages with Nopor photos..people don't steal them.I guess it's not useful for them.😏
hahaha! Relates.
Lol. Me too.
If it makes you feel better I can steal some of your photos!
Brendan van Son It actually would! @photosbybjerneskar
Some great tips in here! Thanks for breaking it down for us. Haven't had this issue yet but I'm sure it will come up!
Why don't you just give this case to a lawyer? Much easier and a standard rate for this kind of usage is around 150-600USD respectively your standard rate.
People have stolen my pics online because I’m a musician. I’m getting to the point where I don’t wanna use ig no more
Brendon, both examples are profiting by marketing your product (images) for their commercial gain. The first one, has published your name which I can see a trade off.
Well Brendan I was in this situation countless times. What amazed me that there were few accounts that didn't bothered to credit me, mention me, and the worst, almost all images on their feed were mine. I can't say that Instagram (their employee) didn't reacted in a couple of hours but what annoyed me is that they wanted proof (link to mine images) of all the stolen photos. Once I had to copy/paste 50 URLs. I get that they need to do that for 2 or 3 or 5 photos, but when you see that someone took all the images, I think that the ban was the only solution. Or to freeze the account until they (owner of the account) deletes all the photos he/she stole.
And this topic always makes me a bit mad...
Even if you file, Instagram does absolutely nothing.
What do you do if a friend's art is being stolen? How do you report it properly then?
Branding or watermark on the drawing it will be harder for someone to steal
Hey i am a part time photographer i did a free photoshoot and asked the client to give me credit on instagram and tag me. Now he's not responding. The whole reason for the free photoshoots is to grow my audience and to start charging my clients later on. But my image is getting tons of likes without me being credited. And i haven't posted that picture so i wanted to ask that can i still report that image or not? I can prove that i took that picture... Is is in my DSLR SD Card and i can share screenshots of me sending him the image on whatsapp.
Cant find their IG page now, so I think it worked.
Thanks Brendan!! Teachers, such as yourself, are a blessing to us that want to learn or review what we have learned. I consider your site, along with certain other professionals on You Tube, to be an outstanding source of instruction and information in regards to photography.
Surely it is not beyond the wit of Instagram and other social media sites to allow posters to select "no download of file permitted"?
Alasdair MacKenzie they make a lot of money by people uploading other creator’s content. So it’s not in their interest to change things. That’s why we need to be vigilant about reporting this and not letting people get away with it. Some personalities make millions from their social media activity, they can afford to pay for photography.
Expect 5000 lawyers to now ask to go after people like this and split the money received.
Hahahah
Good!
I’ve always been concerned about this. I started “branding” my images on Instagram last year to make it more difficult for them to do this. I see a lot of new accounts reusing the same images over and over again. I know they are trying to build the account so they can sell it. Building someone else’s account is not why I post.
How do you brand it? Do you add a watermark to your pics?
There are licenses to specify exactly the artists' will. Why don't you use Creative Commons on your content? CC attribution non-commercial exists exactly for the scenario you described with Starbucks. Instagram doesn't allow you to specify a license. But flickr does. We were so better off with that... it's like we took several steps back and forgot there are better alternatives.
I have an online business and I was going through my tags right before I made my Instagram ad and I saw my tag on someone else’s page. I clicked on it and went through their page and saw that they stole my picture of me wearing my necklace that I was promoting and tried to pass it off as theirs. I reported it to Instagram and exposed them all over social media.
I'm an aviation photographer and have the same problem. My pics have been stolen and used for everything from being published withOUT me knowing it, stickers, T-SHIRTS! and put on other web sites with watermarks removed and that photo claimed to be taken by said other person.
I made a picture for a merchandise competition and I ofcourse was wearing a longsleeve from a band. I posted the picture on Instagram with the band tagged both in the picture and the description. My face was ofcourse in the picture and I was still 16 at that time. They posted the picture on both their Instagram and Facebook (I don't even have Facebook) with no credits to me. And the post was like this longsleeve is still on sale get it now. So it was commercial. I messaged the band that I was happy they liked the picture but asked if they could give me credit. They dodged the question very weird. And I sent them a message again and they still doged it. Then I emailed their manager. Explained what happened and asked if he could give me credits on the picture or delete the picture. I didn't get a email back after 2 weeks. In this time I also reported it on Instagram but they didn't do anything about it. I decided to email their record label. And formally explained what happened again and asked if they could give me credits or take down the pictures. I didn't get a response for over a week. After this I sent them another formal email that was almost the same as the last one but with me explaining how they are violating my rights and if I don't get any response back I would be forced to take legal actions even tho I didn't want that because I supported them as a label. Then finally I got an email back after just a few hours from the actual CEO. And it went something like this: are you serious threatening to take legal actions because you aren't tagged in an instagram picture, no wonder you haven't got an email back, get over yourself and just report it. It wasn't a formal email but just that. And i also wrote in the email I already reported it but Facebook and Instagram didn't do a thing. After all of this shit my friends helped me by commenting on the picture saying they should take it down. Not only because they stole my pictures but also because I am a minor. And after all this drama I still feel bad about this. And I no longer can listen to their music and the band from the CEO (yeas the CEO is actually in a band himself). And because my face was in the picture I am still afraid till this day they are going to give me crap if I ever go to a tour with multiple bands and them being one of them. I hope someone can maybe give me advice. And BTW now all the picture are taken off by Instagram and facebook
Honestly these are great tips. However it seems as though insgram doesn't even try to remove stolen images.
I tried filing a DMCA file and they don't do any action.
Great video Brendan thanks for sharing your experience and the how to report it. I'm fortunate I tend to have other Instagram accounts ask and credit with no commercial use allowed works out OK.
Why wouldn't you reach out to them first to seek compensation? They may be interested in using that image for other marketing mediums. Now you have a new client. If not then copyright strike them.
Tony And Chelsea Northrop talked about something similar happening to them, but i don think it was Instagram
someone used their photo on a product package. a charger or something like that.
@@yarontaub wasn't it on iPhone cases?🤔
a car was stolen in my neighborhood last year
Yeah it was for an iPhone case. Since it was in a different country it was much more complicated. In the end they were reimbursed but not as much as they would have liked due to extensive legal fees.
They got $10,000 or so I think. Can’t remember if that was including the half that went to the lawyers or not.
what if they copy your insta and then block you so you can't report them and explain they are using your content?
what I'm thinking now is LET'S STEAL A PHOTO FROM BRENDAN'S ACCOUNT AND WE'LL GET A FREE ADVERTISE ON UA-cam :)
HAHAHHA, terrible/brilliant idea.
That picture is still there on Instagram
Instagram is so disappointing... Yesterdey morning i've posted a picture from Osorno volcano, in Puerto Varas. I have almost 2k followers, and i've got 90 likes in the picture. Yesterday night a repost account with 1k followers reposted my picture, with the same #'s, and immediatly got to explore page, and got 400+ likes till now... So in addition to the instagram let people steal images, it still shows more the account that stole an image....
I have someone that had stolen some of my images from my IG account, this method is no longer available so how would you report someone for stealing my work. Thanks so much
Hi Brandon, we are lucky, in Canada, you press the shutter, you have automatically the ownership of the copyright of the photo, since the law change in 2012 in Canada. Think in the states you have 3 month to register your photo for copyright. in Europe , some country if you use continuas shooting ( not sure of the therm ) , it's not consider art, so you can't copyright your photo ( base on some cases )
it a complicated subject. I agree with you, we should all have a line that we need to keep. thanks for sharing your story. love this.
@@cnlicnli thanks for the details, it help to understand. no need in canada to register your photo, you are fully protected as soon as you press the shutter.
@@cnlicnli as a US citizen you are bound by all international agreement US as sign, international copyright too... so I am protected cause US need to respect and recognize canada copyright protected materiel... like Canadien has to respect and recognize US copyright materiel. ( my english is not that great, not my first language, but I think you will get the idea ).
There is a lot of jurisprudence ( precedent ). check with a lawyer if you need more info, I'm not but those are the base we learn in school about international law.
Tony and Chelsa have made a video about them taking to justice an Australien company that took there photo without permission... verry interesting, check it out
Nice. I really enjoy the advice that you give for social media. I'll keep that in mind for when my IG never gets bigger :)
How do you even find out your photo is even used in the first place?
Hey Brendan :D and how do you find your photos were used by other people? If you were not even tagged
I usually don't. Haha. Unless someone rats them out to me.
I'm a newby in this so thankyou!! Do you have a resource for a generic copyright statement I can use?
well said 10:57 i agree plus lawyer fees etc, headaches.... ugh
Good insight. I'm currently going through this process right now, although the account still has the image up. I've submitted this report but got feedback from Instagram that it needed further review despite including link and original JPEG to Instagram reporting process. The image even has watermark on.
The offending account obviously doesn't care either as they blocked my account previously when I asked them to include photo credit and continue to post my images among other photographers.
Can this apply to somebody who has created a logo very similar to yours?
Interesting video.... there is a flip side to this. Your example of a cup of coffee, the Starbucks logo on the cup is owned by Starbucks. Back.... in the day of film... photographers needed release forms of products, like the Starbucks coffee, when displaying photos either for money or not. Photographers don’t realize some of the items that they post to social media are copyrighted items, which require a release form.
Be Starrs no, you needed a release to use it for commercial use. (Ie for selling it as a stock photo).
Someone who makes his living shooting photographs must copyright his work. If he then takes a public position where he may or may not enforce his rights depending on how he interprets the uses of theft, he practically waives any right to complain about such theft.
It's not his interpretation though, it's the law.
Is it possible to use other photos of other users give the caption for whose it is and tag them. But use my own lightroom preset? I don't want to do something that is not right to do.
Not without the photographer's permission, no.
@@BrendanvanSon thank you for clarifying this for me you saved me dude! 👍
I had someone steal my image and used the same hashtags as me and that was how I found it. When I looked her up she worked for a marketing firm. I was pretty shocked. When I reached out to her she blocked me. So i filed a copyright infringement and they removed it from her profile in less than 24 hrs
Brendan, they have done the same thing with one of my images for Unlimited San Francisco. They actually repost it all the time. It even has the same caption as the one you showed. I would complain, at the same time I figure it is helping me attract followers on IG. So I guess I am torn if I should do anything about it...
Yes all good , but how can you tell if someones copied one of your images ?
Q. What r d guidelines for old photos floating on internet eg. I do a Google search for marylin monroe n find one. How do I know whose d original photographer if it's not mentioned. N d photo says it's under common creative license
But they didn't take it down?
What if these turkeys block me - I've DMed them, and filed a copyright violation with IG, nothing happened and they've taken lots of photos and they dont seem to care.
Great advice mate, I’ve had about 10 of mine taken and re-popped and I’ve messaged and miraculously they have credited me. I haven’t filed yet but 1 individual hasn’t changed or credited so really useful info and I reckon I will be doing this!! Cheers Jase
Jason Kennedy and what has credit gotten you? Just ask for money or file a take down. We need to be harsher about this kinda stuff. It hurts as all.
hautehussey, that’s a fair point... I’m not a professional but the work input into my shots are a great deal and that has value!
Hey please help me out. So this guy is using my Facebook photography page photo on his Instagram account. How can the copyright be claimed.
Just went onto the Unlimited Greece IG account. The image is still on there from 21st March...
The account doesn't seem to exist now
1 person stole my own photo what can i do
That sucks dude...on the other hand I just found a nice photo spot for my trip to naxos two weeks from now :P
Did you get some 80% discount accommodation?
@@twotone3070 not sure if I get that unless they steal my picture :P
someone stole a picture I drew and put it as their profile picture without permission
Question. If they hadn’t mentioned you in the byline, would you have known they took your image?
Nope. Not unless someone ratted them out to me that knew the image.
someone didn’t give credit to an edit i made only until someone commented to. still pissed about it though.
I do this EVERY other day it seems. Wait until some jackass files a counterclaim...the only way to answer it is with a federal lawsuit.
Exactly!!!!!! Im on the same page. I dont have time to argue with pages on ig for stealing my images. Instant report and ig is very fast and effective in removing the image. If this pisses people off they're in the wrong. I do think its crazy though that people think they can take anything they so desire to benefit themselves. They obviously do not appreciate or respect the artist
I'll make you laugh a little bit: some weeks ago I posted an image on a facebook group. A "Sir" copied and turned it into BW and reposted as is it was shot by himself. I recognize it, i wrote a private message and the answer left me with my mouth open. "You did the photo, but I did the re edit, since the fact the the re edit into BW got more likes than the original, means that my re edit works better, so my vision of your photo is mine. No way!"
It was like throwing gasoline on fire… I let you imagine the hell I unleashed. This tought me that no one is safe when post an image over a social media. Sad but True!
Fire back then.I would leave a message on his FB space saying this douche is a fraud by stealing tour property.Then you leave your link where everyone will check it out. Trust me,everyone will go and believe you.You probably have to do few times until he gets tired of you.Fight for it man.I would do it.Send message to FB team as well.Serves him right to mess with you.😉
What is this guy talking about. Most creators are happy that some pages share their work is basically a win/win situation. They are giving them free exposure.
But not when credit is not given
Thank You! Super helpful video!
some person stole all my content and cropped my logo and @ on all my photos/videos - hope instagram takes them down. they got 10k followers from just my stuff
Did it work
I agree to a point, but if the image was special and not just a caption shot , in order to protect copyrights , you are required to defend them, or they are void, Hence why they cannot revoke Dan Snyders for the Washington Redskins , because he actively defends it against violations.
Other than happening to see your image on another account how would you know it was taken? Is there a tool other than doing Google image search on all your images?
Reverse image search, there's also some websites where you can upload your images and they track them for you.
Thanks for sharing. I have always had people reach out and ask permission, but it is good to know how to deal with it should they not ask. Peace.
Instagram technically owns your work according to their new terms
I got upset because someone stole my edit and didn’t ask and wouldn’t take it off😔
My images are stolen EVERYDAY on insta ( no credits)..I'm tired of filling in report forms. Don't know what to do :(
That's the battle. And maybe the option is to stop posting. If Instagram doesn't respect users, and original content creator's, we should stop using the platform.
An “influencer” got Instagram to take down a video I posted where I DISCUSSED the “influencer’s” photo...Yes, a video of ME talking about a photo. Yes, you could see the photo in the video, I was holding my phone in my hand with the photo displayed. And Instagram sided with the “influencer” and removed MY content without question...
Sounds like fair use on your part. That's annoying.
Brendan van Son it absolutely was fair use, or fair deal here in the UK. I blogged about the whole affair
www.postable.co.uk/blog/copyright-infringements-frustrations-of-the-digital-life
Did you sue them?
So weird hearing you say "from here in Canada" hahaha I see you made back to this side of the pond I guess for the Stanley Cup Finals lol.
Doesn’t happen to me. Don’t know if it’s good or bad because no one wants to steal my images
That’s why I don’t post the photos I want to print online.
Thanks for sharing your story 👍
I don't use Instagram because (unless it's changed) Instagram has the right to use your images anywhere in the world for whatever they want and it can also give those rights to a third party without asking you. Is that not just the same as what the person you carried out the copyright infringement did to you? The only difference is out of the kindness of their hearts Instagram did something about it , I guess if it was they that used your image they wouldn't do anything, that's just a guess tho.
Thanks for sharing the story. Happens all the time and I agree with everything you say. Glad to see the removed the "Congratulations" bit... wankers.
I never put my favorite images online anywhere because I’m afraid they’ll get stolen.
you should add your @ on the photo, with like 40 opacity
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I've seen facebook editing groups where people have been illegally removing copyrighted watermarks and logos and worst of all most times they are stealing the images from a business page Ive been calling people out for doing this and I've even gone as far as taking photos and then I will go and then contact the owner of the photos and i will attached the evidence of them stealing their photos and than having the copyright watermark illegally removed there was a person on another site who said he steals other peoples work that they have spent days working on and then he will then go and sell the same image for a small profit its absoluty disguting
One person steals all my instagram photos for about one year and she blocked me. I didn't know about that account and one day my friend asked me '' do you have another account " I don't know what to do. I already reported ti Instagram. That person is looking girls for eskort through my pictures. (sorry for my english) I hope your instructions will help me.