Good day.

There is such a problem, our company manufactures and supplies products to dealers and sells them independently.

The product has a name that is used by dealers (and unlicensed dealers) and photograph (s), which was photographed by US.
The problem is that when we type in the google, yandex search our company names, business areas, products, etc. That on the first pages of pictures of search engines there is 80% of our photos, but most of them link to other sites, of which only 20% are our official dealers. Link to our company is on the 3-4 page and then only 1-2 photos.
Although we have our own online hypermarket with a variety of photos of products and their detailed description, the same name.

1) I would like to know whether it is possible to bring the number of our photos with links to our website on the first pages to an acceptable level?

2) Most of the links lead to unlicensed dealers who use our photos, but it is unclear what kind of goods they supply, since prices there may be significantly lower. Is it possible to somehow influence the sites that use our property (photo) for their own purposes?

What can you advise? After all, if the links led to our site, then the number of orders would be more, because these are our products and it is more profitable for us to sell it directly.

EXAMPLE:
Suppose that 80% of these benches and their photos are taken by us and delivered to other companies, however, links lead to all sorts of other sites.

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3) Google has a section entitled "Use Rights", can you somehow register electronic rights to a photo so that it (photo) disappears from other (unlicensed) sites and requests to the address of this site would fall?

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    1. If on other sites there are suggestions on making cheaper benches of comparable quality to yours, then people will buy from them regardless of whether they have pirated photos of these benches or not. You need to think about how to reduce the cost of production, and not about the rights to the photo. You will do cheap and high quality - there will be orders.

    2. Concerning the rights to photos - contact the lawyers. They will help you make a sample letter and application to the court. Then look for the owners of sites that use your photos, contact and ask for peaceful removal of photos. If there is no reaction, then send a registered letter with a notification with a complaint to the address of the site owner. Then, if the situation remains unchanged - submit an application to the court. In general, the matter is long and dreary. The site owner will always have an explanation that he did not know about you and took these photos, for example, on fishki.net or anywhere else where they were listed as free. Yes, you still need to prove your authorship or ownership of photos.

    In general, something like that. In general, everything that you have posted to the public Internet access becomes public. You can indicate your authorship on the photo and indicate that copying is prohibited, but it is impossible to influence other people and force them not to copy the photos that they see in their browser.