Now thats interesting. How is that accomplished (stolen wise)? Did the person that recovered the money have his images posted on his own website? Stock pages? Curious to know more here.
Eric would have to answer that question but at the moment, the tracking is limited to the US, UK and Germany but apparently they have plans to expand to other countries. I have a great deal of my work on my PBase site where theft of work is endemic. And while on the odd occasion I find my images on sites which were unauthorised, its much too tedious to go through the process of recovering. I would be interested to hear from pros and others who have had first hand experience with Picscout.
aFeinbergPhoto wrote:
Now thats interesting. How is that accomplished (stolen wise)? Did the person that recovered the money have his images posted on his own website? Stock pages? Curious to know more here.
aF
It was a image used online and in print . Caught it through the online usage which led to discovery of the print usage . User paid for editorial rate and was using it for advertising . Can't say any more than that but he got paid .
While I have no idea on how they compare with regards to price or service, Digimarc has a similar system if you have marked your images with their digital watermark.
I may be wrong but I don't think that Digimarc pursues the infringer to recover lost income which is what Picscout apparently does. That's possibly why they get to keep 50% of the return. With Digimarc, you pay $499 up front for 5000 images whereas with Picscount, it costs $14.95 per month for a year unless you want to cancel.
According to Picscout, you upload up to 500 images and forget about it. They will send you reports when they find an image on a site and you tick it off if its a legitimate use.
