My images have been stolen- what should I do?

[Overread36]

I never get any interesting domain links - just domains where I've posted the pics already

 

[e.rose]

I never get any interesting domain links - just domains where I've posted the pics already

I always get a bunch of "Unknown source" ones. I don't know if that's my blog... or... what.

 

[mishele]

The one that bothers me, is when someone emails one of my photos. I can't track who it was sent to.

Two days ago one of my photos was linked to here....
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[Overread36]

I never get any interesting domain links - just domains where I've posted the pics already

I always get a bunch of "Unknown source" ones. I don't know if that's my blog... or... what.

yeah I get a good few of them somedays - never found out what they were from though - silly flickr!

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

The one that bothers me, is when someone emails one of my photos. I can't track who it was sent to.

Two days ago one of my photos was linked to here....
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If it truly bothered you, you would no longer post your images to the intertubes.

 

[mishele]

The one that bothers me, is when someone emails one of my photos. I can't track who it was sent to.

Two days ago one of my photos was linked to here....
Rogers powered by Yahoo!

If it truly bothered you, you would no longer post your images to the intertubes.

It bothers me but obviously not enough to do something liked that. I don't take myself that seriously at this point, so it happens and that is the way it is......

 

[KmH]

Unless your photos are registered with the US copyright office there is not a whole lot you can do if someone steals one of your photos and uses it without your permission.

There is the concept of 'fair use': U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use and there is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Using the DMCA Takedown Notice to Battle Copyright Infringement to also consider.

A way to locate unauthorized use of your online photos is 0 results - TinEye

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

The one that bothers me, is when someone emails one of my photos. I can't track who it was sent to.

Two days ago one of my photos was linked to here....
Rogers powered by Yahoo!

If it truly bothered you, you would no longer post your images to the intertubes.

It bothers me but obviously not enough to do something liked that. I don't take myself that seriously at this point, so it happens and that is the way it is......

And that's how you have to think of it.
One of my most linked to images:

Second image on a Yahoo Image Search

One way to help stay hidden is to not title or tag your images.

 

[Overread36]

True - me being lazy and mostly not tagging anything probably keeps me under the radar

 

[mishele]

Bah....lol What fun would that be.:greenpbl:

 

[Snakeguy101]

Unless your photos are registered with the US copyright office there is not a whole lot you can do if someone steals one of your photos and uses it without your permission.

There is the concept of 'fair use': U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use and there is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Using the DMCA Takedown Notice to Battle Copyright Infringement to also consider.

A way to locate unauthorized use of your online photos is 0 results - TinEye

That only says that "you won’t be eligible for statutory damages" but you do not have to register your images for them to be copyrighted. Everything from your facebook profile picture to those images taken on your phone and sent to your girlfriend is copyrighted. I was never looking for a monetary settlement I was just wondering how I should go about preventing images from being used without my permission.

 

[e.rose]

True - me being lazy and mostly not tagging anything probably keeps me under the radar

Me too... until I got Lightroom.

I actually tag in Lightroom for my own organization... except that bites me in the ass because sometimes I'll forget to DE-TAG the photo after uploading them to Flickr. :er:

Is there a way to keep Flickr from importing tags w/o killing the EXIF data?

 

[KmH]

Unless your photos are registered with the US copyright office there is not a whole lot you can do if someone steals one of your photos and uses it without your permission.

There is the concept of 'fair use': U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use and there is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Using the DMCA Takedown Notice to Battle Copyright Infringement to also consider.

A way to locate unauthorized use of your online photos is 0 results - TinEye

That only says that "you won’t be eligible for statutory damages" but you do not have to register your images for them to be copyrighted. Everything from your facebook profile picture to those images taken on your phone and sent to your girlfriend is copyrighted. I was never looking for a monetary settlement I was just wondering how I should go about preventing images from being used without my permission.

No, it says a lot more than that.
Without registration, you have no way to enforce your copyright.

When you register, you get a numbered registration certificate. So when you send a C&D (Cease and Desist) or a DMCA takedown notice and include the registration number of your copyright, people take more notice and are much more likely to comply.

On the other hand if you send them an email/C&D/DMCA asking them to remove your photo that doesn't include a copyright registration number.....

The only sure way of "preventing images from being used without my permission" - is to not put them online.

 

[inaka]

Is there a way to keep Flickr from importing tags w/o killing the EXIF data?

Can't you just set the permissions of Flickr to not show EXIF data?

Your Account > Privacy & Permissions > Hide your EXIF data [?] YES

 

[e.rose]

Is there a way to keep Flickr from importing tags w/o killing the EXIF data?

Can't you just set the permissions of Flickr to not show EXIF data?

Your Account > Privacy & Permissions > Hide your EXIF data [?] YES

No, I *want* the EXIF data to show... just not the tags.

I mean, I delete them myself... but I'm lazy, so if there's an easier way to just keep the tags from importing, that would be FANTASTIC! :lmao: