Questions and Answers

COPY-IDENT tracks your images and offers the image post-licensing worldwide. If there is no agreement with the infringer, we can enforce your rights with our lawyers in many countries.

As soon as you have registered with COPY-IDENT, you can upload up to 500 images immediately for monitoring. If you have more images you wish to upload, please contact our support team who are happy to offer you more suitable subscriptions. 

We use several state-of-the-art technologies for our Reverse Image Search, such as Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Our new image-matching software not only uses the metadata of a photo but also compares the images at the pixel level. This enables us to find even duplicated or modified images.

Our innovative technology allows us to search the internet for your images efficiently and evaluate hits automatically. Therefore we can offer our service to you risk-free. We finance ourselves exclusively through the successful enforcement of your image rights. Only in the event of success will COPY-IDENT receive a commission.

No! COPY-IDENT is free to use if you track less than 500 images. We only take commission if we have a won claim with you.

You will receive 55% of the license fee or compensation we achieve for you. For more detailed information, please visit our Plans page. Billing is done automatically and so you don’t have to worry about anything.    

As soon as you hand in a case to COPY-IDENT, our team starts enforcing your rights. First we will offer the infringer the chance to retroactively license the image(s) which can be done via our secure online portal. The entire post-licensing process usually takes about a months.

If the post-licensing process is unsuccessful, we will start the legal enforcement of your rights. The legal enforcement through a dunning procedure up to a court case is often a long process and can take a longer time to complete. However, you will be informed during the process.

In order to make your search for illegally used images as effective as possible, we recommend that you only upload images you have already sold for online use or those that are freely accessible online.

Only these images can be stolen and found by our search engine.  In addition, the upload time is shortened by your preselection. This speeds up the search and makes it easier for you to keep track.