Vent: Found a stock photo I shot in 2019 on a billboard in Chicago, zero credit

I was driving down the Kennedy last month and saw my own photo, a coffee cup shot I sold for $28 on a microstock site, blown up 40 feet tall and they didn't even need my permission, has anyone else had their cheap work resurface somewhere huge?

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michael_williams14d ago

Used to think those sites were harmless for hobby shooters, this proves they just flip your work for free.

matthewking13d ago

flip your work for free" is honestly the understatement of the year. I had a buddy who found one of his shots on a stock site with a watermark still on it, and they were literally selling it for five bucks. The wildest part is they don't even ask, they just scrape your stuff and act like it's theirs. Makes me wanna go back and delete half my old uploads before they end up on a billboard somewhere. These sites need to be burned to the ground legally, not just talked about.