Surprise!! License Compliance Services, Inc. If you own a website, it's possible you receive some threatening junk mail from 'License Compliance Services, Inc.

That's 1427031 (133%) extra pixels Alamy is pulling out of their ass!ĭid you get some shitty 'give us money!' mail from 'License Compliance Services'? Alamy claims to offer this image with 1295 × 1929 pixels. is the WikiPedant revision of File:Lynda Carter Wonder Woman.JPG. They also mess with the resolution of images. Īlamy charges only 9.99 Euros for personal use and up to 179.99 Euros for a large business! Selling the service to download the image is one thing, but how can Alamy charge large sums of money for selling rights they don't have? It makes no difference if you buy the image for 9.99 or 179.99, the photo is still CC0. 7 How Alamy fucked the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the ass.

6 The dangers of allowing contributors to mass import public domain images.5 But what Alamy does is, although dickish, completely legal.2 Did you get some shitty 'give us money!' mail from 'License Compliance Services'?.This clusterfuck has been going on for a while, at least since june 2015. Paul Fearn (2,233,976 uploads on Alamy) or one of the few other Alamy accounts that pulls this shit owns your ass now! This is possibly his website, but I have no definitive confirmation this is the same person. Now Alamy has your image and watermarked it, but it is banned on Commons! Nobody will believe you now if you say you are the author. Administrator deletes the image from Commons because Alamy likes plagiarism.Another Commons user nominates the image for deletion: ' Appears to be a copyrighted image: '.Alamy copies the photo from Commons, often with the same filename and description and sells it without any kind of attribution.Commons user uploads photo with public domain tag: File:Manny Pacquiao weigh-in.jpg.

Or a Commons user takes a photo themselves, in that case the image can truly be stolen.

Photographer (Pixabay user rcelis) uploads a photo with CC0 public domain waiver.

, UK, Guardian, p48, gorilla at Longleat, DEK9M7, T.M.O. , UK, Guardian, p47, mobile banking on a smartphone, CC4BKX, Ian Dagnall , UK, Guardian, p45, thermal photograph of burglar, DHH8YT, Cultura RM

, UK, Guardian, p21, food stall on Singapore market, B7T5EF, Peter Horree

2016 alamy stock photo