A few days ago, photographer Dai Jianfeng published an article on "Jeff's Starry Sky Journey", stating that he had filed a lawsuit with the Tianjin Heping District People's Court against Visual China for illegally selling his photos without his permission and seeking compensation from him. At present, the lawsuit has been accepted by the court. Yesterday evening,Visual China responded to this matter by saying that it firmly supports resolving the problem through legal means.
According to previous reports, the feud between photographer Dai Jianfeng and Visual China occurred in mid-August. Dai Jianfeng posted on Moments that he received a call from Visual China today.They claimed that the public account had used 173 of their photos infringement, and they had to pay them more than 80,000 yuan.And these so-called "infringing photos" turned out to be his own works. Dai Jianfeng expressed that he wanted Visual China to give a reasonable explanation.
Visual China later stated that the pictures in question were sold by the photographer's authorized photo library StocktrekImages, which in turn authorized the relevant pictures to GettyImages for sale. As the exclusive partner of GettyImages in mainland China, Visual China has complete sales rights including the relevant pictures involved. The sales authorization chain of the pictures involved is clear and complete.
However, Visual China's rhetoric was once again refuted by Dai Jianfeng. He himself said: I have verified with Stocktrek, and Stocktrek clearly informed me that Visual China has no right to sell my works, nor does it have any copyright in my works. Getty also has no right to sublicense my work.
In addition, Stocktrek stated that it has notified the Visual China website to delete Dai Jianfeng’s related works, and the Getty platform will also contact Visual China to remove Dai Jianfeng’s works.
At present, the court still needs to decide how far the copyright dispute between Visual China and Dai Jianfeng will develop.