The internet is vast and grows every day. That means you may find copyright infringements that our crawler hasn’t detected yet. You can submit these hits manually to start the enforcement process.
How to submit a hit manually
In your inbox, click the blue button in the upper right corner labeled “Submit violation manually.” You will be taken to a new page.
In the field “Your image”, enter the name of your original image. Images from your COPY-IDENT collections that match the name will appear automatically. Select the correct image.
In the field “Page URL”, enter the link to the website that used your image without permission.
In the field “Image URL”, enter the direct link to the image as it appears on the website.
Once everything is filled in correctly, your image will be displayed next to the illegally used image. Click “CONTINUE” to review the hit one last time before confirming. Within a few minutes, the hit will appear in your inbox, from where you can submit it as a claim to us.
Requirements for manual submissions
The used image must be larger than 100×100 pixels.
The image format must be jpg, jpeg, png, or gif.
The domain of the Page URL and Image URL must be the same.
If the domains differ, you will see an error and cannot proceed.
In this case, you can contact us, provide both URLs, and we will connect them in the system so the manual submission is possible.