Picrights Reviews 246

tentativi di richieste economiche immotivate

Je crois qu'une plainte collective pour escroquerie serait nécessaire...

A rotten to the core, dead soul company, without ethics, morality and when closed down the world will be better.

Picrights, please don't reply, I'm not interested.

We had an email and letter from PicRights that immediately seemed fishy about a copyright infringement, lots of technical jargon and big words but nothing that provided anything legally binding as to why we needed to pay them, who made the claim and what infringement law we'd 'broken'. They continued to harass us after we told them not to contact us. Just ignore them, they target small businesses and look to scare them into paying them money.

what price do you put on a use of a photo . Definitely not £750
The issue is the amount they look to charge for using a photo

i just got a hard copy letter from the scum scammer company. what i did first is i googled them. i also googled the monica berg woman.

she claims that i have put pictures from some sources they say they represent, however i haven't seen any proof that they actually are representing anyone.

the 2 pictures that they want payment for ahahaha are from who knows how far in the past, 5 to 10 years ago, i have to check. what i did was the following:

at the end of the blog post for that first picture i put a source from of the information and deleted the stupid picture;

on the second picture that they troll me on their stupidly written snail mail, it was a .pdf file attached on my blog from a news web page, that i, transformed in a .pdf and all together with the .pdf came the picture as some sort of a surogate, which is not even put on my page, but again, inside the generated .pdf from the news page ahahaha.

so what i did is, i removed them both, however, on one of the links where they examined my micro enterprise which is non profit and we never ever profited as a no profit organisation since 2011, i linked the links with comments from this page, so that, miss. monika berg can look at these comments and know that WE KNOW WHAT SHE IS DOING.

i can offer her, to miss iceberg, 1 cent of an EUR for each of the pictures, so that is in total 2 cents, but no bank will accept this kind of payment.

to conclude: after reading these comments, im just gonna ignore this stupid idiots as there is absolutely no law here in my country to make all these false flags claims.

and also, where in the hell is she going to charge me? in alaska?

but first, she has to call me in court which will cost a lot of money, and btw, in which court? thu she said that she is not a lawyer nor that scum organisation with antihuman behaviour going after micro businesses like mine is a law firm. hey ICEBERG SALAD its cold outside, damn scummer.

what a joke

Fake
fate attenzione non pagate e non rispondete ai loro contatti.

My South African website was hacked and suddenly, one of my pages was Russian.
On that Russian page was photos put there by the hackers.
So I deleted the page.
They are welcome to sue me. I and my lawyer is ready for the fXcktards,

Ma qualcuno du spicci glieli ha versati..!!!!!!!?????
Io quasi quasi a forza de stressarmi co ste mazzzze de email gliele mannno...!!!

I received a letter stating I had used their clients pictures without permission on my website . They had been on & screenshot sais pictures

The problem is some of those photos were sent by my friend who actually took the photos & the others I screen grabbed myself during video calls with the people in the photos.

Forse PicRights Italy Srl, con sede a Via S. Orsola, 9 in Bergamo dovrebbe ripassarsi le basi del diritto, almeno quello del Paese in cui opera.

In Italia, lo stato di diritto impone che l'accusatore esponga prove certe e reali del danno subito.

E tali prove debbono essere presentate nelle sede legali opportune, davanti ad un Giudice.

Mandare una semplice mail o lettera (che non ha alcun valore legale, peraltro), anche ammesso che l'azienda operi sotto mandato reale (non se ne dubita, ma non è questo il punto) non è un atto legale valido.

Perché mai dovrei fidarmi di un'azienda che, senza esporre la prova del suo mandato (un regolare contratto, in cui viene bene indicato il materiale esatto da tutelare), parte subito con una richiesta economica, peraltro decisa su non si sa quale base?

Non si dovrebbe rispondere nella loro richiesta, e questo vale per ogni contenuto, nel fornire prove di acquisto che, per un'ampia serie di motivi (logici e pratici), non siamo tenuti a mostrare a nessuno che non sia un'autorità competente.

Personalmente, gestisco centinaia di siti con migliaia di immagini regolarmente acquistate dai miei clienti: se dovessi dar conto alle richieste di PicRights, passerei tutto il giorno a fornire prove di acquisto, spesso per immagini che sono presenti in vari database, acquistate in vari servizi di stock photo.

Se proprio pensano di essere nella parte del giusto, possono sempre adire le vie legali, con una regolare causa civile, comprensiva di idoneo dibattito.

Sono due anni che sto ancora aspettando questa azione, che stranamente non arriva.

Chissà perché.

Disgusting bullying but plausible. Initially we were shocked to doscover a picture on our website should have had a licence, but after taking it down, we were still hounded for money and threatened with legal action. Thank God for Trustpilot and these reviews, clearly showing this as yet another scam.

Sadly this seem to be a legit company engaging in extortion and intimidation. Their business model is based on the parasitism of the worst kind.
In some instances they don’t even represent the copyright owner, they just trawl the internet using AI targeting small publishers- majority of which use the images under the 'fair use' provision.

Thank God I was lucky enough to find my own backups and to figure out that the image they claimed, has never been published on my blog. They have replaced it! I could not trace when and how exactly they got into the SQL or CMS, but I am working on it. Police will figure more out.
These guys have a good idea of what is going on at your control panel and CMS. They approach their victim when there is most likely no more proof of your "innocence", probably by adjustments in SQL as well, and the new version of your faked page has already been indexed by search engines. Besides, they target very old publications, as I noticed after reading other victims' experiences. You might not remember anymore the details, especially if you have many posts, and you will admit at once, that it is what you published indeed yourself when confronted by the 'evidence'. And then you will most likely panic and delete it (with real evidence of their intrusion!) at once. Or perhaps you were really not careful enough and got an image protected by a copyright. But yet, even then you would pay not for the rights to use it but a ransome to an evil minded stranger who will most likely 'find' a few more 'mistakes' like that - I saw such feedbacks, too. It is a psychological game, a technically arranged hunting mis-en-scene. But even though these scammers might seem to be well prepared, their practices stay criminal. Do not let to make you scared by feedbacks that they 'really work with big companies' (even confirmed, such a dirty partnership would be rather a compromising fact to the 'big company'). Keep calm, make backups before you delete anything, make your own backups all the time, and forward their letter to police.

PS Just to compare it with your info: their contacts (in the middle of Swiss nowhere), bank account (in the capital), and a 'specialist' (accidently with a celebrity name) they use at the moment.

Monica Berg
Copyright Compliance Specialist / Service de conformité des licences
PicRights Europe GmbH
Tél.: +32 (0)23150500

PicRights Europe GmbH au nom de / on behalf of The Associated Press
Unterdorfstrasse 12,
8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland
Telephone: +32 (0)23150500

UBS Switzerland AG
PicRights Europe GmbH
IBAN:CH72 0021 6216 5210 9160 T
BIC: UBSWCHZH80A
Postfach 8098 Zürich Switzerland

Ricevuto 3 email da questi soggetti tra Dicembre 2023 e Marzo 2024 tramite PEC per una foto utilizzata nel mio sito internet trovata in uno dei vari portali di immagini stock di libera fruizione, senza copertura di copyright. Ho risposto via PEC all'ultima mail motivando punto per punto il mio rifiuto a pagare quanto richiesto. Si sono fatti sentire di nuovo settimana scorsa sotto le spoglie di uno studio di avvocati a cui hanno affidato la procura ad agire, con allegato il il PDF del mandato che puzza di falso creato con Photoshop. Adesso mi rivolgerò alla polizia postale denunciando l'accaduto e mi farò assistere da un avvocato perché ho seria intenzione di chiedere i danni morali e denunciarli per estorsione

Truffa
Ho ricevuto una richiesta di pagamento da parte di Picrights a seguito di un presunto utilizzo non autorizzato di immagini. Sconsiglio vivamente di pagare qualsiasi somma.

Numerose segnalazioni online indicano che Picrights potrebbe adottare pratiche aggressive e ingannevoli per ottenere pagamenti, inviando richieste standardizzate e minacciose anche per piccole violazioni del copyright.

Provvedimento n. 30304 l’AGCM (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato), pubblicato nel bollettino n. 35 del 3 ottobre 2022 ha sanzionato le Pratiche commerciali scorrette messe in atto da Photoclaim, una delle tante aziende che operano con lo stesso metodo.

--in risposta--
Quello che avete scritto è semplicemente falso. Nel mio sito web ci sono solo foto di mia proprietà scattate da me personalmente, quindi di fatto avete tentato uno scam.

This is a scam! Most ethical companies would issue a take-down order and if there is no compliance within a reasonable time frame then commence legal proceedings. If for whatever reason Picrights does proceed to court it would be thrown out as they have not followed correct legal procedures. Also, it would order to take court action the legal cost would outweigh any fees that are payable to them. So put simply just change the image and then ignore them.

**"I received a letter from Pic Rights claiming to have contacted my lawyer, the original owners, and even my family. Despite my lawyer's lack of knowledge about this, and despite my recent recovery from a year-long battle with cancer, Pic Rights continues to pursue me relentlessly.

I've searched their website and found no mention of this claim. Their aggressive tactics, including hounding my wife and child, are causing significant distress. This behavior suggests a company that is more concerned with profit than with the well-being of individuals, particularly families. Such actions could potentially harm the children of the involved businesses, making them complicit in child abuse.

Attenzione questi sono degli AUTENTICI TRUFFATORI, da denunciare all'autorità giudiziaria. Tentano di estorcere soldi con la minaccia di azioni legali inesistenti. Ecco i loro dati: DENUNCIATE come ho fatto io:
PicRights Italy S.r.l.
Via S. Orsola, 9
24122 Bergamo, Italy
+39 0350460629
resolveIT picrights. com
Amministratore Unico
Ing. Mario Regazzoni

Was contacted by this dodgy company three times about an image, they referenced the image and the website link. We took it off as soon as we got the email

6 months later...... still getting emails and now they are trying to charge is 295!! for an image we removed at the first notice

bunch of cowboys this company