Picrights Reviews 246

Of course it's a scam. If it weren't, they wouldn't ask for absurd amounts claiming to be fair payment for the photographer's work.

Firstly, the work of these photographers to obtain these photographs has already been paid for by whoever commissioned the work, so asking for money for a supposed license of use obviously means that this money is not for the photographer but for whoever paid him for the work.

Is this right? Only if it is in the USA or countries with absurd copyright laws, in the European Union and in most other countries in the rest of the world, this is absurd. But if these laws are from the USA or UK, there are also Fair Use laws there, that is, asking for money for a photo that illustrates a certain article, being necessary for the clarification of the article and as such with the aim of educating or clarifying someone, is covered by the law of Fair Use.

On the other hand, if there is indeed a right to pay for copyright then it should be paid based on viewing it. If I want to see a painting, I go to the museum and pay for it, I don't have to pay just because I know the painting is in the museum, which is exactly what these gentlemen ask for.

In other words, if the photograph is in a certain article/blog/webpage and no one goes there, it's the same as me knowing that the painting is on the wall of the museum, so I don't have to pay for it, if I click on the article and go see the photograph, then it's as if you went to the museum to see the painting and paid for it, so if these con artists were serious people, they would ask for a percentage of the value earned by viewing the work, nothing more than that.

As such, they are not serious people, so this is a scam to steal money, nothing more than that.

A rip-off. I was charged €431 for a picture on a blog site where I post short stories for my writing group of about 10 people. The page has probably had about 20 views. The picture was a small decoration that I could have easily done without. I made no money out of it, it attracted zero visitors to my website, so how do they arrive at the cost? They are picking on the little guy because we don't have the means to appeal these charges in court. How much of my €431 actually went to the photographer?

Scammers, scumbags, need to get the authorities and police to shut them down, absolute crooks.

In reply to below, yes it is a scam, youre targeting small business who might have inadvertently posted a picture on a blog or other and bullying them and trying to ruin there business with big law suits and fines. Youre wicked, terrible people.

Hi, I was told by email that the licensed picture was used and we have to pay certain amount etc. , we mentioned them that our company is not capable to pay and asked for discount. They returned back. I am not sure if this is a scam or not. It looks a bit suspicious. Any idea to share, please welcome.thx

Dirty scammers. Just got letter from these thieves regarding the image with Public domain license from rawpixel.com

This company is not set up to fight for the rights of poor, hard-done-by photographers; it is set up to vexatiously extract money from small businesses and charities.

They are not the rights holders to images but are undertaking a fishing expedition in the hope that they extort money.

Picrights is a scam.
The definition of scam: "a dishonest scheme".
Picrights will contact you and claim copyright infringement for pictures on your website. They will demand payment but do not provide details of the "infringement". Demanding payment on a false premise sounds like a scam to me.

They are scammers. They pretended to be a copyright holder of the picture of my friend (she is a real copyright holder)🤣 totally fraud. Hopefully someone will sue them!

Scammer company, just bin their letters.

It's not even a company, it's just a rat kid in the basement of his parents' house, trying to scam people by usurping the role of a European entity.

Totally reportable.

The man I spoke to just now took into account my situation and then made arrangements to make it affordable and gave me enough time to get it dealt with.

They're doing a job and in my opinion they've done it well.

Pic rights made it easy to deal with and I appreciate it actually.

My name's Damien, I had a claim against me and yet despite this my feelings towards pic rights are more positive than negative at this time.

I appreciate the support and understanding shown by this company.

Upon reading other reviews id like to inform you all that having done the research I can confirm pic rights is a legitimate company, not a scam.

They also don't strongarm you, they didn't strongarm me in fact they immediately tried to understand the situation and despite my rude tone to my voice spoke to me with the upmost of respect.

Shakedown company isn't even a law firm, and isn't in the U.S. Why would USA Today use these clowns to scour social media and demand money from a tiny fraction of FB users who happen to have someone post part of an image they claim is theirs on your FB site? Makes no sense. You want me to pay 600 bucks for the 20 people who saw the photo? Why me? Why not the millions and millions of other posts, many for business reasons? hmm? Gimmie a break. CLOWNSHOW! If this is real, I'm unsubscribing to USAToday and imagn. Pathetic.

Thanks for all the good information. We are a small Rotary club that has received 5 letters demanding we pay a total of $13,007 for using photos that go back as far as 2012. We are a small club in a small country town in the West of New South Wales.

I am our bulletin editor which goes to 29 members only. They found 8 pics mostly jokes that I get off Facebook. I have uploaded several hundred since 2012!

I have sent their letters to our Rotary legal department. Can anyone here let us know if they appear on Facebook does that make the photos on Facebook available for downloading?

These people are low life scum and we will fight them all the way as we raise funds for local charities and obviously never used any photos to make money ever. We work hard to raise a few $ at BBQs street raffles etc.

Pity you can’t give zero stars. We are a non league community club and used a photo giving to us from another local team to promote a charity game over a year ago.
We explained what the situation was with little sympathy in reply and charged £90. The image apparently was PA Image copyright who they represent.
Threatened with legal action if we weren’t compliant.
Ambulance chasing scum bags.

This PIC scammers hacked my travel website and linked some politician figure inmy website.I had no idea and saw that picture linked only after getting letter from PIC.This PIC is blaming me of copyright violation for use of pictures which i never did nor this picture is related to my work.I ignored there letters as i thought its fake but now they have sent another letter via some law firm.This company should be banned for scamming people for money..

I have just paid this company again, £180 for an image I used over 5 years ago, I was new to websites so wasn’t aware. When they first contacted me 3 years ago I paid straight away because they are very intimidating, I took the image down and now they have just contacted me again! I am so stressed by this that I am now on medication. Will they contact me again! How can people like this sleep at night. Beware and be warned that just because you have paid once, they know you’re a soft touch and will come back for you!

When I first got an email from Picrights 4 days ago I thought it was a hoax, but they seemed so convincing I was really worried. The 3 photos on my website from 2 years ago had been posted long before I took the website over. Picrights said they were acting on behalf of the copyright owner. So I removed them, spent a weekend going through old posts, checking nothing else had slipped through, contacting the previous owners of my website, emails flying everywhere, getting really anxious and stressed out as Picrights were demanding £369 in compensation. I emailed them back explaining everything. That resulted in a really long email today with 4 'legal' looking contract type documents - really intimidating stuff. Then I thought let's investigate them. Finding all these reviews on Trust Pilot has allowed me to breathe easy again. What I've now done is to email the company they say they were representing, to ask them if PicRights are acting on their behalf. I'm looking forward to their reply. If Picrights are lying, I'll be onto the Fraud investigators. I also looked at their company on Company's House. That made interesting reading too.

Do not give this company any money, do not reply or give them any information.

Put it the recycling bin

These people try and extort monies from the wrong people and have no foundation whatsoever!