PixsyReviews of pixsy.com

good-how quickly it occurred. bad - price

I love Pixsy. I recommend them to everyone. The only reason for 4 stars is that it takes so long for cases to get finished. I think we are 3 years into one now. Other then that, totally amazing and definitely worth it.

Successful compensation from Pixsy.

They made it easy for me to get paid for unauthorised use of my work in 2 cases now. Their email responses were prompt when I had questions, too. I took one star off because of the following: - they make you spend a fair bit of time adding case details BEFORE they tell you oh, sorry they can't help you with Creative Commons licensed images in certain countries like Germany or Spain. Which was annoying as I'd spent time filling out the rest of the details before getting to this stage. I wish they would ask upfront so you don't waste time (also, why isn't it covered in those countries - it would be nice to get an explanation). - They pay your money within 30 days of them receiving it - it is a bit long I think, it would be better if they paid sooner. - Their cut is 50% - it would be nice if it was just a bit less... but still better than nothing so that's not a big problem, if they could sort out the first major pain point I mentioned above.

So far I have some cases running. I can't tell for the success or the outcome yet. My cases concern for example companies that stole my pictures probably in poor quality from social media and started printing them on pillows and other amenities. There have been a few cases that ran into nowhere and were closed just like that - fine for me. I can understand the companies here, that try to find a proper solution together, feel bullied. This may not always be the perfect way of dealing with copyright infringement, but: Every company should be aware of this topic no matter how small or big it is. Many photographers like me do not earn a bunchload of money for their work but have to pay for expensive equipment, travel costs and more. Therefore I think the work of pixsy, in it's general sense, is important.

As a freelance photographer Pixsy helps me to find breaches of the copyright on my photos. Pixsy is a very useful tool.

If you are a photographer or passionate about photography and post several of your photos online, Pixsy is a tool that will be very helpful. It scans the net to search if any of your pictures has been used and you can check if it was fair or unfair use and take action to have your rights correctly acknowledged. It's as simple as that. The only downside is that not always matches are 100% accurate but they are accurate enough and probably the rate will improve with time.

I started using Pixsy because the service was added to my Flickr Pro membership. If you are concerned about who might be using your images, it can be a useful service. It accurately identifies images that are either actually yours or very similar. For those images that are actually yours, the website page using it is identified and you can either go and contact the site yourself, or use a Pixsy "Take Down" process. I have not used the latter, but on half a dozen occasions, it found unauthorised use of my images and I was able to get credit, which is all I ask for these days. One downside is that I found there were a depressingly large number of sites using my images but since these were Russian and Chinese, I simply couldn't face the prospect of trying to get them to acknowledge this. This is depressing, but since I don't expect to make huge amounts from my images it's no worse than that.