rejected vector

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
November 18, 2025
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I create all of my icons by hand, and every asset I use is completely original—none of them are made with AI or copied from anywhere else. Still, I keep getting warnings about “duplicate content” or “intellectual property” when I try to use or upload them. Why is this happening, and could it cause any issues with my account?

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

You're competing with 135 million icons in Stock's vast inventory. It's nearly impossible to be original with so much competing content available.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=icon

Find another niche that needs representation & fill it.

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Similar content rejections are more and more common, and a large number of contributors are receiving them. IP issues are another matter and you need to take care when it comes to submitting assets that contain intellectual property. If it happens too often, it could conceivably affect your standing.

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.

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SagoriAuthor

Participating Frequently

I create handmade work based entirely on my own ideas, so why would Adobe Stock reject it for “similar content” or “intellectual property” issues? We put in real time and effort to make our original work, yet it still gets rejected. Why doesn’t Adobe Stock evaluate AI-generated content separately from genuinely handmade creations?

Abambo

Community Expert

I create handmade work based entirely on my own ideas, so why would Adobe Stock reject it for “similar content” or “intellectual property” issues? We put in real time and effort to make our original work, yet it still gets rejected. Why doesn’t Adobe Stock evaluate AI-generated content separately from genuinely handmade creations?

By @Sagori

Even handmade, a phone like device with a point button in the middle generates an IP violation, as Apple claims property of that design. That is the same requirement for handmade assets and for generative AI assets.

Similar content also has nothing to do with how you created the asset. It's just that Adobe claims that there is similar content in the database. We all struggle with this rejection as nobody really understands what exactly triggers this. Some think that it has a lot to do with metadata.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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