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Thanks Ixnay!
I didn't even klnow about QiShare until yesterday when I received several emails from people telling me about my photography being stolen and uploaded there. I spent many hours last night going through the first 300 PAGES of photos and found several dozen of my pieces (some of them popular enough to be stolen 3 or 4 times by different people) and filed a report One asshole had the nerve to post TWENTY of my photos under their username!
The most frustrating thing about QiShare is their terms and conditions which grants themselves partial ownership and user rights to material:
I'm not sure how they can do that considering the fact that probably half the photos posted there are not posted by the original photographer/copyright holder and other than asking people when they sign up to only post their images they seem to hardly enforce it - many of the photos there are professional images or ones from magazines (believe me, in going through 300 pages worth I saw plenty of them multiple times) Its especially frustrating to see really nice original artwork (like Tenshigaka/Sarah's amazing pencil portraits) being reposted there with no mention of who the original artist is.By submitting your Content to QiShare, you hereby grant to QiShare, the other users within the QiShare Service and QiShare’s licensee’s, affiliates and assigns (collectively, the “QiShare Licensees”) a royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide license to do or authorize each of the following:
reproduce your Content, to incorporate your Content into one or more collective works, and to reproduce your Content as incorporated in the collective works;
create and reproduce derivative works of your Content;
distribute copies or phonorecords of, display publicly, perform publicly, and perform publicly by means of a digital audio transmission your Content or any derivative work thereof, including as incorporated in collective works; and
use any trademarks, service marks, or trade names incorporated into your material and use the likeness of any individual whose performance or image is contained in your material.
Also frustrating is when you take the time to watermark your photos (which much as I hate the looks of I've taken to doing on my recent work because I've had so much problem with theft) and find the watermarks photoshopped out (sometimes taking parts of a person with them) or even worse, somebody else making THEIR OWN watermarks on your work. (Whoever runs "Havok World Industries" may you rot in hell)
Considering how *this* board is very respectful of people's work and you are asked to only post you *OWN* work, it is really frustrating to see AFI open up such a "free for all" which appears to actually REWARD people points towards wining prizes for how much stuff they can steal from other people's web pages!
Originally Posted by sistinas
