79 Pixels
79 Pixels
Your photographs are almost certainly in use right now on websites that never licensed them. Chasing that down is slow, awkward, confrontational work — and it isn't why you picked up a camera. It is, however, exactly what we do all day.
A single successful photograph can rack up dozens of unlicensed commercial uses over its life — travel sites, blogs, brochures, product pages — each one quietly displacing a sale.
Finding the uses is only the start. Screenshots that hold up, ownership records, fee assessment, polite-but-firm correspondence, follow-ups, escalation — done properly, each case is hours of work.
We run image-matching, evidence capture and case management as one continuous pipeline across your whole archive, so the long tail of infringements actually gets worked — not just the worst offender you happened to spot.
We index your archive — image fingerprints, authorship records, licence history — and agree which works we act on and on what terms.
Continuous matching finds your work across the web. Every candidate is verified against your originals before it becomes a case.
We contact the user, present the evidence, and negotiate a retrospective licence — escalating to formal action only where it's warranted and you agree.
You see every case, its status and its outcome. When a matter settles, you get your share with a clear statement.
We work on commission. If a case recovers nothing, you owe nothing — monitoring, evidence and correspondence are on us.
Your name, your work, your call. We agree the tone of approach up front, and nothing escalates to formal legal action without your sign-off.
Every letter is evidence-backed, proportionate and professional. We pursue commercial users who should have licensed — not fans, not non-profits acting in good faith.
High-resolution originals or a link to your existing library — Commons, your agency, your own site. We build the fingerprint index from there.
Proof of authorship and any existing licences or agency agreements, so every claim we make stands on a clean chain of rights. If your records are a mess, we'll help you tidy them — that's part of the job.
Pick the image of yours you suspect travels furthest, and email it to us with a line about where it's been published. We'll come back with what we find — and you can judge us on that.
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