My Istock images stoled and for sale here - USER Made By Raja

[wagnerm25]

Shame on you Adobe Stock. I'm vector artist exclusive for Istockphoto and today I found lots of my vectors for sale here as PNG files. User is "Made By Raja"

Here is one of stole images at Istock:

https://www.istockphoto.com/br/vetor/old-american-caminh%C3%A3o-gm165746114-14177924

And here the stolen images at "Made By Raja" portfolio. Almost all thief's portfolio consists of my vectors.

https://stock.adobe.com/br/contributor/211206303/made-by-raja?load_type=author&prev_url=detail 

Dozens of my files in the thief's portfolio.

Adobe, please do something and shutdown entire portfolio of this "artist"

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

You need to file a copyright complaint as described here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-report-suspected-misuse-of-your-intellectual-p....

Adobe will by then take action and investigate. If your claim is proven true, the contributor will be banned.

[wagnerm25]

Thank you, I opened a complaint with adobe. I hope it runs fast.

[Abambo]

Adobe will, when your complaint passes the first hurdle, suspend temporary the account and then investigate further. As I haven't made a complaint until now, I have no idea about how fast the complaint gets treated, but I suppose that Adobe will react quite fast, as it engages the responsibility of Adobe in such cases.

[Jill_C]

Adobe relies on the honesty of the Contributors who must certify that they have full rights to the IP of every asset they upload; however they do take claims of IP theft very seriously, and will take immediate action once you report the stolen images at the link provided by @Abambo 

[Abambo]

I see that the account is blocked by now. The reaction was fast. Less then 24 hours.

[Jill_C]

That's good to know!

[wagnerm25]

Sadly, I found another account with images from my portfolio. User is https://stock.adobe.com/br/contributor/211330769/naheed?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

One of image here at Adobe (there are lots of) from my Istock portfolio:

My Istock image (all machines in this image above are my vectors)

[Jill_C]

Read this Help Page for how to report suspected theft of your images:

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-report-suspected-misuse-of-your-intellectual-p....

[wagnerm25]

Yep, I do it.

By the second time.

[wagnerm25 · Accepted solution]

I see that the account is banned now. The reaction was fast as I expected.

Thanks Adobe and I hope I don't have to do this again. Two times is enough.

[Abambo]

Adobe takes those problems very serious.

The problem is, that you will always find people thinking it is smart to steal, repackage and publish. The difficulty is to find the assets. As soon as you have them, it's a small step.

[Jill_C]

Glad to hear that Adobe took immediate action; they do take such matters very seriously. I just wish they could find a way to permanently ban such cheaters!

[Nancy OShea]

I have a feeling this is not a one-guy operation. More like a team of pirates working from offshore boiler rooms where nobody can touch them.   😞

[George_F]

From one contributor to another, I'm sorry you are going through this.  I'm glad to hear that the accounts were taken down swiftly both times.