Picrights Reviews 246

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.

I know of two interesting cases with Picrights in the last four years on two separate websites.
One website had historic blog content on that was paid for and licensed under the URL. Picrights refused to accept the evidence and the £10,000+ that was paid for the licensed content as it didn't specifically mentioned the individual picture, even though invoices and dates were quite clear for the licensed content that had been created by a large, well known agency.
More recently Picrights sent an email about an image on another website that is actually part of a National Archive and they have confirmed from the archive that the image has no restrictions for use on it! Picrights claim their client owns the image and a license was never purchased.
Although they are not technically a scam, I would call them chancers and overly exploitative in their actions. They normally pick old images from a website that you may struggle to find your original licensing/payment for. They then demand you provide evidence of the license for the old image, when in reality you may well not remember which website you purchased or obtained the image from, and therefore even when you know you are in the right, you may well not be able to prove it! How many people keep evidence of purchases of Microwaves, TVs, Cookers etc. Just because you haven't got an invoice and can't even remember where you bought it, doesn't mean it's not yours or you stole it! On that basis I would have to forfeit about 90% of the goods in my house!!!
I'm all in favour of people using licensed images on their websites and not stealing other people's work and using it for free.
But this is despicable behaviour from a totally unscrupulous company, leveraging peoples' inability to prove their genuine image licensing, for their own over inflated gains with threats from solicitors and the fear of going to court.

New scam in town. These guys surf the internet and find pictures on websites and then google them to find out where else they are. Then they send you a threatening letter to scare you into paying because 'removing it is not enough'. It appears this is how they get paid as they have ZERO other services and work in a VIRTUAL office. They probably pocket 50% of the scammed money from starving and hardly able to make ends meet people. Corporate Greed is all it is and boycotting all the companies listed on their website is the next step. Who ever this guy is behind this scam I hope someone with 'Mad Skillz' exposes them and then we can all have a talk in person. You can say you are not responsible after it goes to a lawyer but you will still be the one people look at.

Anyone Can help me i received 3 email yesterday about my 6 to 7 image are copyrighted,which i use 1 year ago and also deleted it 6 month ago still i got this email.
How we proced it i am very sad.
please any one reply my it does not effect my site?
i am single person doing blogging earn $80 per month.
How i pay him $1700 please any one reply me

Only 1 star as cant go lower. Claimed I had used an image from one of their clients, which was totally untrue, as I always get images from paid sources. They got their supposed client to write a legal copyright notice, basically a word doc with the image and a note saying they held copyright. Strange that the said Company only has a website and no where for reviews etc even though they are supposedly a big photography company.

Try to look International but the same guy answers all the phones and he asked me to give him my card details over the phone. Like I am that stupid.

Companies like that should be shut down as the frauds that they are.

They have no authority over the images they pursue.

I was very disappointed, the customer support was unkind, they didn't even answer my question. Avoid them

I was contacted in January and notified that I was using an image on my website which was protected by copyright. I took the image down immediately. I was contacted again yesterday and advised that I owed £350. I regret that we used an image without the correct rights to use it HOWEVER, it was used on a practice webpage that I made up as I was trying to learn how to use the website software. It was NEVER published anywhere and you cannot navigate to the page from our website. Their software obviously does an image search and found a page that no-one else could have. The simple image would probably have been licensed for £25 - £30 if I had sought to use it on a published website. They have offered to reduce the fee down to £275! What a joke! I offered to pay £50 for the image just to make them go away but they are not interested. The person I spoke with on the phone had a terrible manner and even worse attitude - talked over me, used threatening language etc. Thankfully I have been round the block a few times so don't get intimidated by that type of behaviour but I can see how they probably extort money out of people through their intimidation tactics. I don't know how people like this sleep easy at night knowing they that they have to get up the next day to behave like that again to earn a dishonest living.

Nasty business model. Basically, they use software to hunt out small business owners / blogs that may have unknowingly used a copyrighted image by accident. They try and find images that have been used 2-3 years ago and then send out a relatively threatening e-mail. The image they asked me about was used on a blog post buried on our website from 2019 (so nearly 3 years ago!) they then ask you for the money from that date. The screenshot of the image they sent me was taken in August last year (a good 3 months before they even made contact with me!) they asked for £360 initially but with a bit of back and forth I did manage to negotiate a deal. I settled the dispute because I really haven't got the time or patience to be dealing with these crooks. I very much doubt that anything would have happened if I didn't, they would have probably just moved onto the next victim!