Copyright Violation, Unauthorized Image

[fahrenheit]

Any thoughts on sellers using your image for their primary listing photo? I asked the seller to remove the image and all I got was a reply telling me to get a life! Well, eBay is my life, and I do what I can to protect it from ignorant idividuals who work against eBay policies. I called eBay with no success. I reported the seller to the VeRO program and have not heard back . It's been 3 days. The images are still up. Can someone shed some light on this process? John

[iowa_east_coast]

Under Account-Site Perferences- share your photos you can opt-out of your photos being in eBays catalog. If you are already opted-out the best is to water mark your photos. If your are using photos in a photo sharing program change them to something else.

[tev4all]

vero program

[slippinjimmy]

Did you file an actual NOCI?

http://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing/create-effective-listings/vero-program.html#m17-1-tb2

[copper.boom]

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@iowa_east_coast wrote:

Under Account-Site Perferences- share your photos you can opt-out of your photos being in eBays catalog. If you are already opted-out the best is to water mark your photos. If your are using photos in a photo sharing program change them to something else.

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@iowa_east_coast If you haven't read it yet, check out the Summer Seller Update released last week. That opt-out option is going away. All images uploaded to eBay are eligible to be used in the eBay catalogue and by other sellers. I forget the date it goes into effect and don't feel like looking it up, but think it's some time between now and August.

[iowa_east_coast]

Sounds like water marking may be the best way to keep others from using your pics. Getting anything done about copyrights isn't easy. I started marking mine afer 2 sellers were using my pics this year. They said they got them off microsoft pics. They both changed to some other copy and paste pics. These where plant pics and not of the plants they were selling. I ask them if they wouldn't rather use pictures of what they where selling, the ones they changed to were still wrong.

[slippinjimmy]

I doubt very much that this has anything to do with the eBay Product Catalog.

[lepomac]

Yeah it does. I called. Everyone's images will be up for grabs. Many hours of work and thousands of dollars will be stolen by eBay, entered into the eBay catalog and given to our competitors.

[gracieallen01]

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@fahrenheit wrote:

Any thoughts on sellers using your image for their primary listing photo? I asked the seller to remove the image and all I got was a reply telling me to get a life! Well, eBay is my life, and I do what I can to protect it from ignorant idividuals who work against eBay policies. I called eBay with no success. I reported the seller to the VeRO program and have not heard back . It's been 3 days. The images are still up. Can someone shed some light on this process? John

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Well, since ebay now controls the photos (You told them 'OK'), they can do what they want with them or let others that they 'partner with' use them.

From the UA - just the first paragraph:

Content

When providing content using the Services (directly or indirectly), you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all Intellectual Property Rights (as defined above) you have in that content in connection with our provision, expansion, and promotion of the Services, in any media known now or developed in the future. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your right to enforce against eBay, our assignees, our sublicensees, and their assignees your Intellectual Property Rights in that content in connection with our, those assignees', and those sublicensees' use of that content.

[slippinjimmy]

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@lepomac wrote:
Yeah it does. I called. Everyone's images will be up for grabs. Many hours of work and thousands of dollars will be stolen by eBay, entered into the eBay catalog and given to our competitors.

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Are used and vintage items included in the Catalogue?

What about the policy that used items must use an image of the actual item?

[fahrenheit]

I guess eBay doesn't believe that a picture is worth a thousand words. Very often I encounter buyers who never read the description, they make their purchase based on what they see. I spend a lot of time photographing my items, making sure all positive and negative aspects are documented. Sellers on eBay are in direct competition for items. I'm not sure it's right that I help my competitors sell the same item. 

[a_c_green]

Just curious: where IS this "catalog" of images? Can someone please post a link?

[copper.boom]

AC- I've seen it mostly when I post things like CDs, Books, Electronics, Small Appliances. You enter a product identifier then the catalogue populates with images, product details, etc and you can choose whether to use that info or not.

[fahrenheit]

Good news! The VeRO program acknowleged the image violation and removed the listing in question. At this time it's not OK to use another users's image without permission. Nice to know. My thanks to everyone for their input regarding this matter. 

[pinkrose442savings2018]

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@fahrenheit wrote:

Good news! The VeRO program acknowleged the image violation and removed the listing in question. At this time it's not OK to use another users's image without permission. Nice to know. My thanks to everyone for their input regarding this matter. 

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Does anyone know when this new wave change with photo's come's into effect?  At least you'd have time to water mark your long hours of photo work to preserve them for your use only...