VGG Face2 dataset, redistribution of copyrighted material

[adamhrv]

I ran an OCR analysis on the VGG Face 2 dataset (https://academictorrents.com/details/535113b8395832f09121bc53ac85d7bc8ef6fa5b) and found 13,957 images watermarked with a Getty Images copyright. Is it legal to redistribute copyright images from Getty on Academic Torrents?

There are a similar number of images with watermarks from other stock photo agencies including Alamy and Shutterstock. These numbers only quantify the verifiable watermarked images. The actual number of copyrighted images is likely significantly higher, if not comprising the entire dataset as the images were scraped from search engines w/o any indication of licenses. It's notable that VGG has removed the VGG Face 2 dataset from their own site (http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/vgg_face2/, 404) citing pending legal concerns from their University's legal department.

Below is an example on n000001/0046_01.jpg from the test partition

Should redistribution of this and other copyrighted material be permitted on Academic Torrents?

[ieee8023]

Hello,

This is a forum for support when using the Academic Torrents platform.

For any legal concerns please see https://academictorrents.com/docs/about.html#legal

[adamhrv]

Please check your email "contact@academictorrents.com". It's been down for at least 2 weeks.

GitHub seems to be the only way to establish contact about issues regarding your unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material.