PixsyReviews of pixsy.com

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

I'm a photographer. Pixsy helped me multiple times. Good quality of service.

Extremely helpful tool. Like a guard dog for your online portfolio. Just upload the photos and forget about it.

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 submitted a case that, after weeks of review, was declined. What bothers me is that Pixsy sent me a list of criteria the image theft would need to meet for them to accept the case which included "Your image is not available on a stock site" and "Your image is registered with the US Copyright Office". I don't understand why these criteria aren't transparent from the start. I would not have bothered wasting my time putting together all the information and proof regarding the image theft. When you submit a case, there is even an option you can check to tell them the image is available on stock sites - Why isn't the case automatically declined right then? Why isn't this basically the first question? The next criteria was that the image needs to be registered with the US Copyright Office. I come from Europe. The site that stole my image was located in Europe. So, pixsy is only for US citizens? Why isn't this communicated from the start so peopel outside the US don't waste their time? Last but not least the list of criteria said that they basically only go after big companies, as small fish are not worth their time. All of this should be clearly communicated on their site from the start. Would save both them and photographers a lot of time.

I have started using Pixsy as a professional photographer a few months ago (included in my SmugMug plan). Great service, excellent scanning capabilities. Within seconds it found all my images that I have authorized to use on several other websites around the globe. Makes me feel a bit safer and also in control of the situation when it comes to online image theft.

I've used pixsy for about 2 years as a professional photographer, it's easy to use and their algorithm has been able to find some commercial infringement cases for which i was able to receive financial compensation. You just submit the case to pixsy and they take care of the rest. It's also possible to send out takedown requests or just ignore the use of a photo (personally i don't go after personal blogs or small indy publications). The pixsy team is friendly and easy to communicate with. Highly recommend!

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.