Service to Check If an Image is Copyrighted

Service uses AI technologies to recognize copyrighted content in images.

Main Features

Detect copyrighted Fictional characters Fictional characters can be protected separately from their underlying works as derivative copyrights, provided that they are sufficiently unique and distinctive. Fictional characters can, under U.S. law, be protected separately from their underlying works. This is based on the legal theory of derivative copyrights . More in wikipedia

Detect Movie Screenshots Copyright laws are stringent if you are using the screen grab for a commercial purpose. More details on copyrights here .

Detect copyrighted stock images In order to use them legally, you need permission. Such permission is known as a license, a contract that authorizes you to use the image in certain ways. Without a valid license, you cannot use a stock photo.

Try service for free

No registration required. Use the following link to create service request:

Or you can start with this sample url and later modify url with image of your choise.

Documentation

Service will return JSON type response with the following fields:

copyrights - list of objects describing found copyrighted item
copyrights name - name of copyrighted object. For example name of fictional character.
copyrights found - Describes confidence for found copyrighted object. Possible values: LESS_POSIBLE, POSIBLE, LIKELY, VERY_LIKELY.
copyrights url - link to resources for more info on copyrighted object
copyrights source - link to pages which include same or very similar image
error - if any error this field returns error message
copyrights description - defines who owns copyrights
copyrights type - possible values: FICTIONAL_CHARACTER, CREATIVE_WORK, OWNED_BY, STOCK_IMAGE

Sample request and responses

Detecting fictional character

In this example we send link to image with fictional character Spider-Man and receive following json response:

{
  "copyrights" : [  
  {
    "name" : "Spider-Man",
    "found" : "VERY_LIKELY",
    "url" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man",
    "description" : "Comic book character",
    "type" : "FICTIONAL_CHARACTER"
  }  
  ]
}

This response saying that VERY_LIKELY we have FICTIONAL_CHARACTER named "Spider-Man".

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Detecting movie scene

In this example we send link to movie screenshot and receive following json response:

{
  "copyrights" : [
   {
     "name" : "Rocky",
     "found" : "VERY_LIKELY",
      "url" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky",
      "description" : "1976 film",
      "type" : "CREATIVE_WORK"
  }   
   ]
}

This response saying that VERY_LIKELY we have CREATIVE_WORK named "Rocky" which is "1976 film".

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Multiple copyright records

In this example we send link to movie screenshot and receive following json response:

{
    "copyrights" : [  
    {
         "name" : "Batman",
         "found" : "VERY_LIKELY",
         "url" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman",
         "source" : null,
         "description" : "Comic book character",
         "type" : "FICTIONAL_CHARACTER"
      }, {
          "name" : "DC Comics",
           "found" : "LIKELY",
           "url" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics",
           "source" : null,
            "description" : "Comics company",
            "type" : "OWNED_BY"
      }
   ],
}

This response saying that this Fictional Character Batman and this image is owned by DC Comics

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