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Is this photo registered the copyright for the image at the US copyright office?
Can they provide you with proof of registration?
Are they aware that numerous web sites are representing their images as "free" or "free to download and use"?
If so, what action has client taken to stop them?
Although they showed a screenshot from Getty Images for some other image, how did they arrive at the valuation of this image? (Remind them that iStockphoto offers images in that size for $5 and the site you obtained that image from was free.)
Ask them what relationship do they have with the site that hosted that image.
I think that those toads are still operating out of Israel.I have informative insightful blog visitors who happen to be in Israel. I don't want to block them. I do want to block picscout. It seems to be that blocking the host picscout surfs from is sufficient.
Why not just block all Israeli IP ranges?
S.G.
Nice read Mcfilms!How do you access robots.txt if you don't have any access to the servers? Also, can't you request your webhosting company to block? As if you are on an Apache machine. If you are, remember the string I posted on another thread? I'd edited some stuff out. But the part in bold would have blocked the IP that group is complaining about.
It is unfortunate that we use a webhosting company to run our website and therefore have no access to the servers. We can only add robot.tx to our files. Last week our site crashed for over an hour and it's not the first time it's happened within the last six months. I went back and checked my traffic logs for the last year and a half. On two occasions in a six month gap, my page views skyrocketed way beyond normal.
Can someone say Picscout?
order allow,deny
deny from 46.165.197.142
deny from 114.41.24.17
deny from 200.251.58.190
deny from 190.202.87.134
deny from 216.245.211.245
deny from 222.118.167.142
deny from 85.195.138.26
deny from 219.90.114.26
deny from 188.40.102.81
deny from 118.175.28.80
# baidu spider various ranges
deny from 119.
deny from 123.125.71
deny from 124.114
deny from 124.115
deny from 180
deny from 220.181
deny from 183
# china China Fujian Chinanet Fujian Province Network
deny from 120.37.209.57
# romanian spammer
deny from 94.60.1
# copyscape
deny from 212.100.254.105
# block picscout
[b]deny from bezeqint.net[/b]
deny from 82.80.249
deny from 82.80.252
deny from 62.0.8.
deny from gettyimages.com
deny from gettywan.com
deny from picscout.com
deny from istockphoto.com
# this is spoofing referrers. looked like ia archiver then stuck around with different user agent I think it ok though
#deny from compute-1.amazonaws.com
# block garlik crawler No info on how to do so in robots
deny from 178.17.32.78
# december bot
deny from 208.43.135.148
# spoofs bingbog dec
deny from sus.nukes.procesosirc.org
# dec load bunch of images
deny from cpc2-live18-0-0-cust836.know.cable.virginmedia.com
deny from c-76-101-177-151.hsd1.fl.comcast.net
# cracker bot dec
deny from 212.77.176.179
# hunters try to find wpcontent where it does not exist
deny from advancednet.pl
deny from s5.miwiredhosting.com
deny from ns1.goodafternoon.ro
# liperhey spider until i learn robotstxt block
deny from 94.75.233.28
#deny from www.lipperhey.com
# poor stuck guy
deny from unknown.blyon.com
# getting in with two slashes
deny from 74.86.120.107
deny from 200.54.72.14
allow from all
Whether Material Issues of Fact or Issues of Substantial Public Importance Are at
Issue
In light of the foregoing analysis of the plaintiff's claim that the images at issue are licensed
exclusively to it, the Court finds that material issues of fact exist with respect to the plaintiff's
copyright ownership interest in twenty-seven of the images at issue, as discussed above.
Moreover, with respect to the remaining eight images at issue, no specific time of infringement
was asserted or established by the plaintiff. Additionally, whether the plaintiff, who is alleged to
be “one of the world's leading content providers,” licensing “imagery via the Internet” and
serving “an average of 3.2 million thumbnails, 6.5 million visits and 3.5 million unique users in
addition to an average of 167 million page views each month,” has an exclusive right(s) in any
particular image has the potential to be an issue of substantial public importance, given the size
and scope of the plaintiff's alleged image collections
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