Copyright Protection for Photographers

Find Who Is Using Your Portraits Without a License

You invest hours in every shoot. Your portraits are being used on websites without permission or payment. Protevio uses facial recognition to find unlicensed use of your work — so you can enforce your copyright and recover lost revenue.

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Catches Cropped & Edited Usage
Invoice or DMCA — Your Choice
Timestamped Evidence for Court
Monitor Your Entire Portfolio
90%+
Photographers Find Infringement
$$$
Recoverable Licensing Revenue
Beyond
What TinEye Can Find
5 min
To Audit a Portrait

The Hidden Cost of Unlicensed Portrait Use

Your portraits are your livelihood. Yet the internet makes it trivially easy for anyone to right-click, download, and reuse your work without attribution or payment. Stock photo sites, blogs, marketing agencies, and competing photographers may be using your portraits right now without a license.

Traditional reverse image search fails with portraits because it matches pixel patterns, not faces. A cropped headshot, an edited version, or a screenshot of your photo slips right through. Protevio uses facial recognition to match the actual face in your portraits — catching unlicensed use regardless of cropping, filters, or editing.

Beyond Pixel Matching

Finds your portraits even when cropped, resized, filtered, or screenshotted. Facial recognition matches the face, not the file — catching use that Google Images and TinEye miss entirely.

Recover Lost Revenue

Identify unlicensed usage and send invoices backed by timestamped evidence. Every unauthorized use is a missed licensing opportunity you can now reclaim.

DMCA & Invoice Tools

Generate professional DMCA takedown letters or license infringement notices pre-filled with evidence. Choose enforcement or monetization for each violation you find.

Built for Professional Workflows

License enforcement: Search for faces from your portfolio, cross-reference against licensing agreements, and choose your response: retroactive invoice, DMCA takedown, or legal escalation with timestamped evidence.

Contract verification: After delivering photos to a client, search for the subject’s face to verify images only appear where agreed. Unexpected results may indicate sublicensing violations.

Portfolio monitoring: Set up face alerts for your most commercially valuable subjects. Get notified when their face appears on new websites so you stay on top of unlicensed distribution.

How to Find Unlicensed Portraits

From portfolio photo to infringement evidence in minutes.

1

Upload a Face from Your Portfolio

Pick a portrait from any shoot. Our AI extracts the subject’s face — no need to crop. Works with headshots, editorial, event photography, and group shots.

2

We Find Every Website Using That Face

Facial recognition matches the subject’s face across our index, catching use even when your photo was cropped, filtered, screenshotted, or watermark-removed.

3

Choose: Invoice or Takedown

For each unauthorized match, decide your strategy. Generate a retroactive license invoice backed by evidence, or send a DMCA takedown letter. Download PDF reports for your records.

Photography Copyright FAQ

How can photographers use Protevio for copyright protection?
Upload faces from your portrait portfolio to find where those images appear online. Compare results against your licensing records. Use built-in tools to generate DMCA takedown letters or retroactive license invoices backed by timestamped evidence.
Does Protevio work for edited or cropped portraits?
Yes. Unlike pixel-based search, Protevio matches facial features. It finds your portraits even when cropped, resized, filtered, color-graded, or screenshotted from another platform.
Can I send invoices for unlicensed use?
Protevio generates timestamped evidence reports documenting each unauthorized use. You can use these to support retroactive licensing invoices. Many photographers find that a professional invoice backed by evidence results in payment without legal action.
How does this compare to TinEye or Google Images?
Those tools match pixel patterns and fail with cropped, edited, or reformatted photos. Protevio matches the actual face using 512-dimensional embeddings, finding unlicensed use that pixel-based tools completely miss.
Can I monitor my entire client portfolio?
You can search for any face and set up alerts for ongoing monitoring. Paid plans provide higher search limits suitable for professional workflows monitoring multiple subjects across many shoots.

Your Art. Your Copyright. Your Revenue.

Every unlicensed use of your portraits is lost income. Find them and take action.

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