79 Pixels
79 Pixels
79 Pixels manages photographic intellectual property for professional photographers and image libraries — finding where images are used online, resolving unlicensed use, and putting clear, commercially sensible licences in place.
Automated image-matching continuously scans the web for the photographs we manage, comparing what we find against the original files pixel by pixel — across millions of pages, in every market our photographers' work travels to.
Every use is captured the way a court would want to see it: full-page screenshots, archived copies, technical metadata and a timestamped audit trail held in our structured case-management system.
We approach every case looking to regularise the use, not to punish anyone acting in good faith. Most matters end with a fair licence in place. Where that fails, we are equipped to escalate — methodically and proportionately.
Every photograph on this site comes from photographers who publish on Wikimedia Commons — David Iliff, Diego Delso, Charles J. Sharp, Giles Laurent, Thomas Wolf and others — each used under its Creative Commons licence, with the attribution and ShareAlike notice the licence asks for. Honouring a licence is easy; it's exactly the standard we exist to uphold.
Most unlicensed use isn't malicious — it's a website built in a hurry, a designer who grabbed an image from a search result, a licence that quietly lapsed. When we contact someone about an image, we are usually looking to regularise that use, not punish anyone acting in good faith.
That means clear evidence you can check for yourself, a named case reference, realistic licence fees, and people you can actually talk to. It also means we follow through: cases that are ignored don't go away — they progress, step by documented step.
If you're a professional photographer or image library, your pictures are almost certainly being used right now in places you've never been paid for. We find those uses and turn them into licences — you stay behind the camera.
How we work with photographers