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Wat een scammers! Ze werken samen met copytrack. We werden opeens benaderd omdat we een foto zouden hebben geplaatst zonder hun licentie. Het was een stockfoto die we via een legitiem bedrijf hadden aangeschaft een aantal jaren geleden.

Als ze ons nog een keer durven te benaderen sturen we een advocaat op ze af! Het bedrijf waar zij de foto van gejat hebben, informeren we ook direct. Het wordt tijd dat deze lui zelf eens een claim aan hun broek krijgen!

Ze moeten zich schamen!

Again...again...again...and again...
Stop sending fake copyright warnings. Scam at all levels using copytrack.com to initiate fake claims and ask for compensation.

I have had a very negative experience with YAY-Images and cannot recommend this agency.
As a contributor on Panthermedia, the stock gallery was sold to YAY-Images in 2024. Due to the promising claims made, I agreed to the transfer of my photos, hoping to continue selling usage licenses for my images regularly on YAY-Images as well.
However, the transfer of my photos and my account balance took several months.
During this time, no licenses were sold.
When I inquired about the timeline for the transfer of my photos, I received only vague and non-specific responses.
Further inquiries from me were eventually left unanswered — as if there were no support available for inconvenient contributors.
As a result, I decided to delete my account with YAY-Images. I also requested the YAY-Images team to transfer my remaining balance to me.
Both requests were denied, with the justification that account deletion was not possible, and any balance would only be paid out if it exceeded a certain threshold.
When I asked how I could possibly reach that threshold if my account was to be deleted, I once again received only generic and uninformative responses.
It is clear that YAY-Images is deliberately and strategically withholding the balance I had earned through Panthermedia.
The company's headquarters are located in Oslo, which unfortunately complicates any potential legal dispute.
Lesson learned: I will no longer agree to the takeover of my content by other platforms. Unfortunately, the stock photo market also includes many disreputable agencies. YAY-Images is undoubtedly one of them — a fact that is only reinforced when reading various other reviews.

Total grifters.

Use a company called copytrack to send out copyright infringement emails demanding sums of money when I have a valid licence for the image through another provider.

Clearly this is how they monetise their platform

Please please please this company need to be stop now pure scammers

Stop sending fake copyright warnings. Scam at all Levels using copytrack.com to initiate fake claims and ask for compensation. The Police Should investigate this company and Arrest them.

Common criminals at best on a good day. Use CopyTrack to threaten legitimate businesses with incorrect and spurious claims. Why do the authorities in Berlin not close down CopyTrack for a start. Who could even be associated with these companies and their principals in any capacity.

Stat away from this company! If you need some reprezentative pictures, use other services, like Freepick..

Do not approach this company. They work hand in hand with CopyTrack.. If you have an image from another company, for example, Adobe or Canva, YaY claim it is their image, they send you threatening emails.

Shady Tactics and Copyright Scam – Avoid YAY Images at All Costs

My first encounter with YAY Images wasn't through their website or marketing — it was through a threatening, legal-sounding email from a German-registered copyright enforcement company called Copytrack. They claimed I had infringed on copyright by using an image supposedly owned by YAY Images — an image I had legitimately licensed through Shutterstock. I had never even heard of YAY Images or Copytrack until that email landed in my inbox.

Everything about the email screamed scam — from the aggressive tone to the demand that I log into a suspicious online form to “settle” the matter. A quick Google search confirmed my suspicions: there are countless reports online alleging that YAY Images and Copytrack are involved in what appears to be an extortion racket, targeting artists and businesses with baseless copyright infringement claims.

What’s especially disturbing is that YAY Images claims ownership over images licensed through entirely unrelated and legitimate agencies. If you're a creator, business owner, or web publisher, you should stay far away from YAY Images. Associating with them could expose you to legal headaches and unethical copyright traps.

False copyright claims like the ones they and Copytrack are sending out can backfire — especially under German law — potentially resulting in lawsuits and legal penalties for them. So not only is this unethical, it’s legally risky behavior that no respectable company should engage in.

Bottom line: I wouldn't touch YAY Images even if they paid me. Their practices are shady, their partnerships questionable, and their approach to copyright enforcement downright predatory.

Utter disgrace of a company, claiming they own an image so they can extort companies out of money.... using Copytrack - Marcus Schmitt to write threatening emails and demanding money, claiming people are using unlicensed images. YAY Images and Marcus Schmitt - you should hang your head in shame, you run a disgracefully low form of business practice.

YAY Images claims, via threatening legal-sounding emails from a German-registered copyright troll Copytrack, to own copyright to images licenced via legitimate photo agencies. First time I've heard of either company was via such a Copytrack email, about a legitimately licenced Shuttlestock image that has nothing to do with YAY Images. Everything about this screamed Scam, including the demand to log into some dodgy online form. A quick search showed that these two companies have an extortion racket going, and it's all over the internet. I wouldn't use this company if they paid me, if you are an artist, please beware. Making a false breach of copyright claims, as they do, can result in lawsuits and legal fines in Germany, so you don't know what you are getting yourself into.

Yay Images issues "copyright" infringement notices to anyone displaying "their" images. Regardless of whether you paid for them under a royalty free license, or acquired them legally elsewhere. I received one of these notices for an image that was legally acquired 12 years before I received the email. Do not respond to demand emails from Yay Images or their goons at Copytrack.

This company is a complete scam and needs to be shut down immediately. Like countless others, I’ve been hit with a fraudulent copyright infringement notice from Copytrack, supposedly on behalf of YayImages, for an image that was legally licensed for free. Their predatory tactics are nothing more than a blatant cash grab, and they need to be held accountable.

Schicken "quasi" Abmahnungen über CopyTrack raus für Bilder die man über andere Plattformen wie Freepik ganz legal lizensiert hat. Dann darf man sich mit CopyTrack rumschlagen.

You use their images and them they try to take money from you using infringement claims from Copytrack.

They are scammers

This company should be shut down. Like everyone else on here I have also received a copyright infringement notice by Copytrack on behalf of YayImages to an image that was a free license image from 13 years ago. They do not verify or track down the correct licenses for images. YayImages must think they own every image on the planet.
I’ve been blogging for 15 years and have never heard of this company YayImages until now when I received a email from Copytrack. They need to be investigated for fraudulent claims on image licensing.

ABMAHN WEBSITE!!
NICHT BEZAHLEN!! WURDE ANGEMAHNT IN HÖHE VON 350€ VON "COPYTRACK GMBH", DA ICH ANGEBLICH EIN BILD VON "YAYIMAGES" UNLIZENSIERT BENUTZE.

DIESES BILD EXISTIERT NICHT EINMAL AUF DER HOMEPAGE VON YAYIMAGES!!

ABSOLUT UNSERIÖS!!

Scammers die je onder druk zetten, vaak zijn het foto's die ze zelf stelen van fotografen en uploaden naar copytrack om hun graaipraktijken toe te passen. Er zijn zelfs fotografen die rechtszaken hebben lopen tegen copytrack en yayimages maar het zijn lege BV's waar niets te halen valt.

Het zijn echt trieste boeven die balanceren op het randje van de wet. Je zou gasgeven wanneer je ze voor je auto hebt zegmaar.

Wees dus niet meteen bang als je een claim krijgt, negeer het net zo lang tot een aangetekende brief op je deurmat ligt. En zelfs dan nog steeds niet betalen, maar proberen de originele fotograaf te achterhalen. Ga daar dan mee in gesprek. Vaak weten de fotografen er zelf niet eens vanaf.

in 95% van de gevallen blijft het bij wat blafmails en blafbrieven. Betaal en reageer dus niet zomaar.

I've also received a demand for money from Copytrack for an image I licensed for use through a different platform (in this case, Envato). I have provided my licence but it remains to be seen if Copytrack will accept it and leave my business alone.

Congratulations on destroying the reputation of your business by working with a copyright troll.