Picrights Reviews 246

Scammers, don't pay anything guys

Our NFP is currently being pursued for our use of a few images in a blog two years ago that were part of a paid subscription to a design/image library of the graphic design platform we use for our social media etc.

We understand artists need to be paid, however, we pay for a service so that we can access licensed content.

Picrights are not interested in hearing our side and are bullying for proof of license for each individual image, so we will have to refer to our own legal representation.

There is no option of giving negative stars otherwise i would have given that too. Europe and canada is continuing their legacy of looting people by these medium like picrights.com. Its a scam, kindly beware everyone, don't pay them even a single penny they are copy fraudsters. Actually they don't have any copyrights, thay are just getting benefits from lack of knowledge of people.

Envoie de manière automatisée de multiples mails, courriers puis recommandés avec l’aide d’un cabinet d’avocats douteux pour mettre la pression sur des petites structures ou associations dans le but de leur extorquer des sommes faramineuses au regard de l’éventuel préjudice subit.
Vérifiez que vous n’utilisez que des images pour lesquels vous détenez les droits ou des images libres de droit mais surtout ne payer pas! Il ne faut pas encourager ces pratiques et de plus, si vous payez le risque est élevé qu’ils vous envoient de nouvelles menaces pour une autre image! Mieux vaut encore aller en justice (ce qu’ils cherchent absolument à éviter vu la faiblesse de leurs accusations)

Picrights is a very shady organisation that make money from scanning the internet for those who have mistakenly used a copyright image. This includes not for profit charities and clubs ..... they operate within the law but hound "innocent" people until they pay! Action needs to be taken to stop them doing this. But be warned they are operating within the law. But you can get no lower than demanding money with threats!

Scam!! Used a picture which photographer herself was aware even liked it on my Instagram. Then year later received a bill from pa for £1300 to pay for the picture I used 🤣🤣

Received a letter about copyright or something. I’d elaborate further but I was out of toilet paper so it’s been used and flushed with the rest of the crap.

Definitely a scam and a good looking one at that. I wish I could give no stars. It's almost a convincing one too and it had me deleting my website and freaked me out. Don't be fooled by this BS and report to your attorney general if you can. I don't know if it'll do any good but websites like this one really helped me decide that I wasn't being wrongfully scammed/blackmailed out of my hard earned money. I hope someone else sees this too. Shame on you Picrights...shame on you!

Disgusted company trying to make money from little Bradley's family
From bradleys mum
‼️ RANT ALERT ‼️

This time of year is always a hard time for me, but to receive a call from one of our long standing BLF supporters, about an email he has received off PicRights trying to bill him £1000 for use of this image below. An image of MY baby, who’s 5th angelversary is tomorrow has sickened me to the stomach.

This particular image was taken by a local newspaper, and the editor agreed the image could be used with anything associated with the foundation. Frank who took this image like alot of the media have become friends of mine and the foundation. This image is widely available on google searchers and is in the public domain, but most of all, this is MY son, MY baby, who is no longer with me. To think a copyright company deem it acceptable to try and cash in on my baby boy after I give our supporter permission to use it, this is not acceptable!!!

Since when is this ever ok?

Bradley's daddy and I should be the ONLY people to own rights to ANY images of our child.

To say this has got me angry is an understatement, this whole month is always hard for me, without having to deal with this!

If anyone knows anything about what rights I have please let me know, because I’m at a loss that someone can just cash in on my baby boy and I seem to have no rights.
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SCUM!!!. Trying to extort money from a grieving family. Horrible human beings

Scamming (insert swear sword off choice), trying to charge over 1000 pounds off a picture that the photographer given free use too as long as its for the charity the picture is Bradley Lowery and the charity is The Bradley Lowery Foundation this company or a say scampany are pure scum

PicRights are a sharp practice company. They would threaten to sue anyone, even charities that have never published a thing, under false pretences.

Worst company ever! Or should I say Mafia! Don't trust these people they are just a scam company!

Legitimate company, but dirty business. Sadly they scour your website for even the smallest possible excuse to get you a fine. Sadly they are ligit representatives of Reuters and I had to pay a fine, though I was able to negotiate a 25% discount

They contact people and demand high fees for what they claim are copyrighted images used without a licence. The amounts that they demand seem to be excessive and not compatible with EU regulation.

See section 6 of DIRECTIVE 2004/48/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. (Links not allowed by TrustPilot)

Check on Google Maps where is their company located and you will laugh... They are located inside a restaurant bussiness... The best is to take the photo down and absolutely ignore their emails and letters. I have a friend he simply ignored everything from them. At one point, he sent them back an email offering to pay them 5 euro (five) just for fun :))) They never contacted him back when they realized he was not scared by their threats...

I ignored these fu ckers years ago and told them to fu ck off. Never heard from them again. A decade later here they are again on a different site. First, they are scam artists. Second, I deleted the email and did not even give them the courtesy of a reply. They bought "lead lists" of just random businesses from Facebook. THEY GOT YOUR PRIVATE EMAIL FROM FACEBOOK. Yes, an unpublished email from Facebook, that was specifically used for Facebook. This is where they got the "lead list" os normal people to scam. The idiot below is not a real company who paid these scammers, they are a shill that works for them. Anyone who has any sense will ignore them. If you get mail from them, write on it FU CK YOU and return to sender. If you get email, just delete it. If they call you, curse them out as if they were ISIS terrorists, and then block their number. If they keep calling, change your number. There is NOTHING they can do. Make sure to hide your domain personal info from your registrar using Whois Privacy. DELETE your Facebook account, that's where they get their victims. They are not even positioned in the country they are contacting, and don't even know what country the person is in, just the info they get from Facebook. They are simply scum of the earth, bottom feeding scum, and I've heard of several of them getting beheaded. There are a lot of terrorists in Toronto now. They try to hide themselves with remove work and switching their phone numbers, but the truth is they are no different than the Nigerian Prince or the Nigerian inheritance scam, they are simply scam artists trying to exploit people who are not doing anything wrong for personal gain. They are the most scum of the Earth pieces of shi t, and they can go fu ck themselves.

As to the nice people who get contacted? Do what I said above, hide yourself from the internet, delete all personal info, and treat them like debt collectors. If they break the law by containing you on illegal hours or using any collection that is considered harassing, sue them into oblivion if you want to, or just change your number and delete the email.

They have no power, and they are NOT GOING TO PURSUE YOU. PERIOD! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR! For like $1500 - you know how much it would cost them to hire a lawyer? Thousands. And then they would have to try to collect from someone who probably cannot pay. In other words, it's a BLUFF AND A LIE, it is a SCAM, PERIOD. The best thing you can do is to hide from them. They have no real power, they are filthy liar scammers with no power and they will not sue you or go after you, the email is a total scam and you did nothing wrong, and even if there was a "copyright violation", if you are not running a massively profitable business then there's nothing they can do. And if you are and have lots of money, sue THEM for illegal tactics and bleed them dry. In other words, they will never be able to get a penny from you if you ignore them. IGNORE THEM!! And remove your personal info from online, ESPECIALLY FACEBOOK! By the way Facebook tried to ask for my ID, and now I know why! I said Fu ck You Facebook and deleted my Facebook account.