According to news from this website on August 16, photographer Dai Jianfeng (@Jeff’s Starry Sky Journey) posted on August 15 that he received a call from Visual China, accusing his public account of infringing use of 173 of their photos. photos and asked him to pay more than 80,000 yuan in compensation. However, when he checked the content, he found that these so-called "infringing photos" turned out to be his own works
Visual China was in Weibo responded to the dispute with photographer @Jeff regarding the copyrighted images of Starry Sky Journey. They said they took the matter seriously and had contacted the photographer. After preliminary verification, the pictures in question were authorized by the photographer to Stocktrek Images for sale, and Stocktrek Images authorized them to Getty Images for sale. As the exclusive partner of Getty Images in mainland China, Vision China has complete sales rights to the pictures involved, and the sales authorization chain is clear and complete. They will continue to communicate with photographers and properly handle related misunderstandings
In response to Visual China, today @Jeff’s Starry Sky Journey posted again Said: I do not accept your point of view. I have verified with Stocktrek, and Stocktrek clearly informed me that: @VisualChina does not have the right to sell my work, nor does it have any copyright in my work. Getty also does not have the right to sublicense my work. There is no misunderstanding here. Up to now, you are still illegally selling my works online, lying to me and others that you own the copyright of the works and claiming . Please stop your infringement immediately! ! !
Dai Jianfeng said in Red Star News that he found that the 173 photos sent by Visual China were works he took in the past ten years, some of which It has been published on his official account and Weibo, but the works on social platforms have watermarks and low resolution. Although he has cooperated with foreign photo gallery websites, he has never cooperated with Visual China, nor has he uploaded photos to Visual China’s photo gallery
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