Picrights Omdömen 

Pic Rights is nothing but a scam!! These clowns actually tried to shake me down for my own image 🤣🤣🤣

Picrights est tout simplement une société qui escroque les gens. Malgré le retrait le leur soit-disante photo, ils continuent leur poursuites jusqu'à vous envoyer des courriers à domicile pour vous soutirer 430€. Comme une amande du gouvernement, ils utilisent des textes sans fondement.

To be fair, I understand a control for property rights, and that entities are assisting copyright holders in the internet age. And moving forward into unknown AI, etc. I honestly thought we had all our ducks in a row with my developers by purchasing photos thru legitimate channels. But one photo somehow was part of the stock, but not covered. To tell you the truth, I would have not written this review.. but then they continued their spree on the subject matter. I was going to pay the initial penalty they asked for; along with asking to be further being educated in the matter. In the beginning, I viewed this experience as a learning lesson. But soon realized they won’t educate, they are just enforcers, intimidators.
Picrights have set themselves up as profiteers in this niche. Not educators, just straight out bandit extortionist tactics. No transparency whatsoever, set a dollar figure from who knows where, and you are expected to pay or they will run to their associated law to tattle tale firm like little girls. (No one likes a tattle tale). Protection racket. What really infuriated me, is I am asking questions and the guy from Picrights, says out of nowhere, after months of receiving letters from them with the same penalty amount.. “oh, actually your penalty is too low as it’s a commercial site we now see” They more than doubled the penalty dollar amount. Typically, an amicable organization would be transparent with their pricing. They run some type of dart board method for all I know. Especially when they are forcing this matter on you. How they come up with their numbers again is never shown, discussed etc. Quasi racketeering.
I have no idea what goes on in Canada regarding entities such as this; who are not transparent to the public on how they come up with their penalty figures from the sky, and transcend to the public. Ridiculous. Total free for all.
Only organized gangs act like this.

Bande de mafieux. Utiliser des textes de loi de manière border line et illégale pour escroquer de l'argent en mettant les gens sous pression.
Vivement que leur société soit reconnue comme illégale et qu'ils soient empêchés de sévir ! (Ce qui est en cours !)

P.S : Ne payez pas, ce qu'ils font est ILLEGAL, c'est de L'ESTROQUERIE !

Slimy scum set up a bare-bones website with MY address on it as "contact" information, pasted a copyright picture on the webpage, then sent me a letter demanding $1125 from me for using "their" picture. This is defamation, extortion and racketeering.

These cretins need to be in prison.

tentativi di richieste economiche immotivate

Je crois qu'une plainte collective pour escroquerie serait nécessaire...

A rotten to the core, dead soul company, without ethics, morality and when closed down the world will be better.

Picrights, please don't reply, I'm not interested.

We had an email and letter from PicRights that immediately seemed fishy about a copyright infringement, lots of technical jargon and big words but nothing that provided anything legally binding as to why we needed to pay them, who made the claim and what infringement law we'd 'broken'. They continued to harass us after we told them not to contact us. Just ignore them, they target small businesses and look to scare them into paying them money.

what price do you put on a use of a photo . Definitely not £750
The issue is the amount they look to charge for using a photo

i just got a hard copy letter from the scum scammer company. what i did first is i googled them. i also googled the monica berg woman.

she claims that i have put pictures from some sources they say they represent, however i haven't seen any proof that they actually are representing anyone.

the 2 pictures that they want payment for ahahaha are from who knows how far in the past, 5 to 10 years ago, i have to check. what i did was the following:

at the end of the blog post for that first picture i put a source from of the information and deleted the stupid picture;

on the second picture that they troll me on their stupidly written snail mail, it was a .pdf file attached on my blog from a news web page, that i, transformed in a .pdf and all together with the .pdf came the picture as some sort of a surogate, which is not even put on my page, but again, inside the generated .pdf from the news page ahahaha.

so what i did is, i removed them both, however, on one of the links where they examined my micro enterprise which is non profit and we never ever profited as a no profit organisation since 2011, i linked the links with comments from this page, so that, miss. monika berg can look at these comments and know that WE KNOW WHAT SHE IS DOING.

i can offer her, to miss iceberg, 1 cent of an EUR for each of the pictures, so that is in total 2 cents, but no bank will accept this kind of payment.

to conclude: after reading these comments, im just gonna ignore this stupid idiots as there is absolutely no law here in my country to make all these false flags claims.

and also, where in the hell is she going to charge me? in alaska?

but first, she has to call me in court which will cost a lot of money, and btw, in which court? thu she said that she is not a lawyer nor that scum organisation with antihuman behaviour going after micro businesses like mine is a law firm. hey ICEBERG SALAD its cold outside, damn scummer.

what a joke

Fake
fate attenzione non pagate e non rispondete ai loro contatti.

My South African website was hacked and suddenly, one of my pages was Russian.
On that Russian page was photos put there by the hackers.
So I deleted the page.
They are welcome to sue me. I and my lawyer is ready for the fXcktards,

Ma qualcuno du spicci glieli ha versati..!!!!!!!?????
Io quasi quasi a forza de stressarmi co ste mazzzze de email gliele mannno...!!!

I received a letter stating I had used their clients pictures without permission on my website . They had been on & screenshot sais pictures

The problem is some of those photos were sent by my friend who actually took the photos & the others I screen grabbed myself during video calls with the people in the photos.

Forse PicRights Italy Srl, con sede a Via S. Orsola, 9 in Bergamo dovrebbe ripassarsi le basi del diritto, almeno quello del Paese in cui opera.

In Italia, lo stato di diritto impone che l'accusatore esponga prove certe e reali del danno subito.

E tali prove debbono essere presentate nelle sede legali opportune, davanti ad un Giudice.

Mandare una semplice mail o lettera (che non ha alcun valore legale, peraltro), anche ammesso che l'azienda operi sotto mandato reale (non se ne dubita, ma non è questo il punto) non è un atto legale valido.

Perché mai dovrei fidarmi di un'azienda che, senza esporre la prova del suo mandato (un regolare contratto, in cui viene bene indicato il materiale esatto da tutelare), parte subito con una richiesta economica, peraltro decisa su non si sa quale base?

Non si dovrebbe rispondere nella loro richiesta, e questo vale per ogni contenuto, nel fornire prove di acquisto che, per un'ampia serie di motivi (logici e pratici), non siamo tenuti a mostrare a nessuno che non sia un'autorità competente.

Personalmente, gestisco centinaia di siti con migliaia di immagini regolarmente acquistate dai miei clienti: se dovessi dar conto alle richieste di PicRights, passerei tutto il giorno a fornire prove di acquisto, spesso per immagini che sono presenti in vari database, acquistate in vari servizi di stock photo.

Se proprio pensano di essere nella parte del giusto, possono sempre adire le vie legali, con una regolare causa civile, comprensiva di idoneo dibattito.

Sono due anni che sto ancora aspettando questa azione, che stranamente non arriva.

Chissà perché.

Disgusting bullying but plausible. Initially we were shocked to doscover a picture on our website should have had a licence, but after taking it down, we were still hounded for money and threatened with legal action. Thank God for Trustpilot and these reviews, clearly showing this as yet another scam.

Sadly this seem to be a legit company engaging in extortion and intimidation. Their business model is based on the parasitism of the worst kind.
In some instances they don’t even represent the copyright owner, they just trawl the internet using AI targeting small publishers- majority of which use the images under the 'fair use' provision.

Thank God I was lucky enough to find my own backups and to figure out that the image they claimed, has never been published on my blog. They have replaced it! I could not trace when and how exactly they got into the SQL or CMS, but I am working on it. Police will figure more out.
These guys have a good idea of what is going on at your control panel and CMS. They approach their victim when there is most likely no more proof of your "innocence", probably by adjustments in SQL as well, and the new version of your faked page has already been indexed by search engines. Besides, they target very old publications, as I noticed after reading other victims' experiences. You might not remember anymore the details, especially if you have many posts, and you will admit at once, that it is what you published indeed yourself when confronted by the 'evidence'. And then you will most likely panic and delete it (with real evidence of their intrusion!) at once. Or perhaps you were really not careful enough and got an image protected by a copyright. But yet, even then you would pay not for the rights to use it but a ransome to an evil minded stranger who will most likely 'find' a few more 'mistakes' like that - I saw such feedbacks, too. It is a psychological game, a technically arranged hunting mis-en-scene. But even though these scammers might seem to be well prepared, their practices stay criminal. Do not let to make you scared by feedbacks that they 'really work with big companies' (even confirmed, such a dirty partnership would be rather a compromising fact to the 'big company'). Keep calm, make backups before you delete anything, make your own backups all the time, and forward their letter to police.

PS Just to compare it with your info: their contacts (in the middle of Swiss nowhere), bank account (in the capital), and a 'specialist' (accidently with a celebrity name) they use at the moment.

Monica Berg
Copyright Compliance Specialist / Service de conformité des licences
PicRights Europe GmbH
Tél.: +32 (0)23150500

PicRights Europe GmbH au nom de / on behalf of The Associated Press
Unterdorfstrasse 12,
8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland
Telephone: +32 (0)23150500

UBS Switzerland AG
PicRights Europe GmbH
IBAN:CH72 0021 6216 5210 9160 T
BIC: UBSWCHZH80A
Postfach 8098 Zürich Switzerland

Ricevuto 3 email da questi soggetti tra Dicembre 2023 e Marzo 2024 tramite PEC per una foto utilizzata nel mio sito internet trovata in uno dei vari portali di immagini stock di libera fruizione, senza copertura di copyright. Ho risposto via PEC all'ultima mail motivando punto per punto il mio rifiuto a pagare quanto richiesto. Si sono fatti sentire di nuovo settimana scorsa sotto le spoglie di uno studio di avvocati a cui hanno affidato la procura ad agire, con allegato il il PDF del mandato che puzza di falso creato con Photoshop. Adesso mi rivolgerò alla polizia postale denunciando l'accaduto e mi farò assistere da un avvocato perché ho seria intenzione di chiedere i danni morali e denunciarli per estorsione