Question about stock photos

Hi guys,

I was wondering how sites like istockphoto.com, 123rf.com, and other decent stock image sites can tell if you've got a license to use one of their images or not?

From what I understand, Getty will hunt you down to the end of the earth for "stealing" their images without a license (even if you've done so accidentally by using an image you found on Pinterest or Tumbler), but what about the other companies?

I'm not against paying for images, but I am trying to find some free CC ones by searching. A lot of the good quality images I'm finding though are from stock photo sites. Which made me curious.. with some of the stock photos showing up on 100+ different sites (after doing a reverse image search), how the hell can they tell if each site has paid for usage rights or not?

Thinking along those lines, if you were to upload an image to Wordpress with the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin installed and select the option to remove all EXIF information, can they track the image? Or has all the pertinent information been scrubbed?

Appreciate your thoughts..

I think you'd be ok and if you do happen to get an email about it, just do what they say if you want to stay extra safe!

stock photos is nice BD i thing it's not active more then one year?

It boils down to this: If you get caught, you have to pay, but the owner of the image can just submit a dcma request instead and have your site removed.

Many photos from stock photo companies are micro coded in the actual image. It will not strip out.

If you do a reverse image search and find hundreds of instances of an image in use, you can probably get away with using it. Les than a hundred, I would not though.

By the way, Kozzi has images for 50 cents each if you want them.

Also, If you start gathering image now that you have the rights to use, in time you will have a library of them.

You should carry around a camera and take shots too. You can use and sell them, everyone needs images like you do.

Get the usual PLR packages, I have some on mediafire, pm me and I will send you the links.

Techxan said:

It boils down to this: If you get caught, you have to pay, but the owner of the image can just submit a dcma request instead and have your site removed.

Many photos from stock photo companies are micro coded in the actual image. It will not strip out.

If you do a reverse image search and find hundreds of instances of an image in use, you can probably get away with using it. Les than a hundred, I would not though.

By the way, Kozzi has images for 50 cents each if you want them.

Also, If you start gathering image now that you have the rights to use, in time you will have a library of them.

You should carry around a camera and take shots too. You can use and sell them, everyone needs images like you do.

Get the usual PLR packages, I have some on mediafire, pm me and I will send you the links.

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Was wondering the same thing as OP, great cover Techxan, Kozzi is great. interested in your PLR links as well. PMed

cevman1 said:

Was wondering the same thing as OP, great cover Techxan, Kozzi is great. interested in your PLR links as well. PMed

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links sent .

how about the use of images from online retailers like jc penny, macys and other big companies. has anyone been using them on their site and what are your thoughts? i was considering it but im not sure

Yeah, it's really not worth the gamble or the headache if you're caught. Sounds like a good idea until you get busted. : /

But how does Pinterest and Tumblr get away with it? They got tonnes of Getty Images shared there, by Getty themselves and other ppl.