I posted an image to reddit which someone with a medium sized twitter following took and posted. They had no intention of crediting me with any links to my socials where I might benefit, their post was a letter for letter copy of the title directly from reddit which I included my IG handle, which is the same as the handle for a twitter account I made (which I only have because twitter requires you to have an account for DMCA notices but I have 0/0 followers and no tweets, it’s a dead account), so I got a notification - I would not be surprised if it was just a bot account reposting popular content scrapped from reddit.
I replied and said a “no thanks” to their posting, then an hour later filed a DMCA notice, which was acted on about 4-5 hours later. So over all they had about 4-5 hours to do something about it before they got a copystrike.

Then they have the nerve to cuss me out on multiple platforms and send their followers after me, with one even saying “If I wanted my pictures copyrighted, I should have copyrighted them” which gave me a bit of a laugh.
lol, the absolute entitlement as if I have to let you view my images or let someone use my images to bolster their reach on twitter to gain more followers.

I’m happy you enjoy my artwork where and when I choose to share it, but I don’t owe it to you. And I’m also quite aware that when I share work online it gets taken and reposted, but it’s also my right to request that it gets removed, and if you do it without asking me, well that’s not really my fault when you get a little slap on the wrist.

  • repomonkey@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I took some photos of bioluminescence in the ocean near here about 10 years ago. Within that timeframe they’ve been stolen and used illegally thousands of times - most commonly (falsely) claiming they were taken in South America.

    I’ve begun litigating against all the ones I can using Pixsy and if all the current claims currently running (which is fraction of the ones I could and probably will instigate) I’ll be able to buy a new car by the middle of next year. I’ve already received over $5000 just off three successful claims. I currently have 15 for booking.com alone.

    Something to bear in mind if it happens again.

    • whatsaphoto@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Many years ago, I posted a series of concert photos I took of a particularly famous band at the time to my tumblr page and it blew up way more than I’ve ever seen before. That was at least 10 years ago and I still see them reposted on the various fan pages for that band today.

      I suppose it’s just part of the deal when putting your work on the internet. 9 times out of 10, people don’t give a fuck about copyright when the “Save Image” option is right there for the taking with zero consequences. I’ll admit, I’ve given up trying to fight it years ago and now just see it as part of the process.

      • repomonkey@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Yea, totally the same deal with me. I have local photographer friends who were always sending me links of people using my photos without permission and I chased them for a while and then just gave up because it was a never-ending problem and I had better things to do with my time.

        I submitted a load of cases to Pixsy about six months ago because they kept emailing me and I thought, fuck it, I’ll put a few in. I submitted about 20 I think on that original batch and I kept getting rejection after rejection. In fact I even deleted my account and then the next day they emailed and said ‘congrats you’ve got a pay-out, here’s $700USD’. So I had to get them to undelete my account so I could put my bank details in for the transfer.