Stylish Eve vs Various Video Creators
https://www.facebook.com/Stylisheve/videos
Suspect: Stylish Eve is an online magazine that provides “information and tips about fashion trends, clothing, outfits, home decoration, outdoors, beauty, and jewelry.” Despite that, their Facebook page is almost entirely devoted to videos and photos of babies. Their page has 21 million likes and has uploaded over 100 videos which have been seen over 100,000,000 times. Credit to original creators is rarely, if ever provided on their videos.
Contact: Ahmed Helmy runs Stylish Eve and we have contacted him through [email protected]. When confronted about stolen content he said: “We get thousands of emails everyday from our fans to publish their videos and images and lots of FB messages. Sometimes I get images from the owner of the videos and ask me to get it down or get license. But I ask them for approval that videos are own videos as soon as I got that I tell them another person asked us to post it and we are sorry for that and we add credits for them or remove the video.” Ahmed is used to taking audience submissions, asking permission, then later finding out that the content was not theirs to give away.
Content: Research revealed that over 14,000,000 views were disseminated across 3 Jukin Media controlled videos without properly licensing the footage. Jukin had all three videos removed after we contacted him. 8,000,000 more views were seen on a pancake video by artist Nathan Shields. Nathan confirmed to us that he never granted permission for Stylish Eve to use his content without credit.
Outcome: It is unclear whether or not Stylish Eve has been banned from uploading video to Facebook, but after our emails connecting them with creators and with several successful infringement notices filed to Facebook, the uploads stopped. At least one creator was given belated credit for their video (8 million viewers late). Stylish Eve has now taken to uploading photos. Have they received permission to upload from photographers? We found at least one clear “no.” (See screengrab).
Future: We will continue to monitor this page, which retains 21 million fans. If you know a content creator with content uploaded to Facebook.com/StylishEve, please alert them that they can request removal at this site https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/1409697672616547 and start a conversation about stolen content with Ahmed at this email address: [email protected]
This was our first attempt at connecting creators with content thieves but we have made over 50 more attempts since. Those stories will be told in full on this tumblr. We have 15 more organizations on queue to investigate in the coming weeks. Please follow along and support a very wronged creative community.
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