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Seems so difficult to maintain ownership of a digital image asset. As soon as you distribute on a website that isn’t built for creatives and does nit have a heavy watermark it’s free for anyone to grab. Even as a big company how do you audit someone’s work for plagiarism if you hire a designer?

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Tin Eye or other reverse image searches would be table stakes. Just because something is out there on the internet doesn't mean its free for commecial use.

Further hiring a contractor doesn't shield you from liability for copyright infringement although it's a good argument it wasn't willful.

Some neural nets could be useful here, just indexing would take a while.

VGG19 measure of perceptual loss has been useful for me.

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