Does Google Image Search also punish duplicated content?

[fduo]

Does duplicated content have an impact on your Google Image ranking?

[TheSymmetran]

As far as I know and if I understand your question correctly, Google does not consider duplicate images = duplicate content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k15GpWfsxZU

But you can bet if it is a stock image, still the higher ranking PAGES rank their images better than yours, even if it is identical stock photos, with identical name and tags as well as meta data.