Who's Using Your Pics?

[Merlin]

Out of curiosity (not vanity) I did a search to see if any of my pics are being used outside of the sites I post them on.

I was surprised, and humbled, to find that Vertical Magazine used one of my pics of EI-ICR in an article on the crash back in April. When I originally posted the pic to Flickr I put a CC licence on it so they hadn't done anything wrong and the article did credit me for the photo. Still it did surprise me.

Does anyone else keep tabs on who, if anyone, is using their photos?

[Angry Turnip]

Flickr`s copyright all rights reserved is a complete waste of time in my experience-it seems any flickr member can right click and save any image, and do what they want with it.
I went through all their settings carefully and it still has not disabled right click and save-they don`t seem concerned about either when I complained about it.

As for checking where pics might be used-never thought of that,but I have had some tip offs from folk that have seen my pics being used without any credit to me,or indeed have been doctored.
Photo host sites could/should do more to stop this sort of thing.

[jasT1981]

A while ago I found a 'rent a loo' company was using my photo of the Red Arrows to advertise their website and their being in Newcastle :/ Not sure why as there are 1000s of better ones out there. This was taken on a rather old bridge camera in 2013.

http://www.sloanrentaloo.com/festival-flight/



Not really kept an eye on my photos lately, but I have noticed a lot of my AirshowsNI articles copied & pasted about the place from time to time.

[smudge]

So I think the photo-host sites realise they can't win technically* and have just fallen-back to the license terms and expect the photographers to follow-up with unlicensed users. 

Most browsers have an option to override 'disable right-click', and even if they don't then the photo is still in the browser's cache on the computer so it's fairly simple to grab it.  Apparently 

A few years from now when Web Assembly is mainstream they'll probably start trying other methods for protecting original images.


* Actually flickr used to have a recruiting ad in the source-code of their image pages, on the assumption that anyone picking their way through the obfuscated code might be interested in a job there!

Oh it's still there!

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[Dr Draken]

It's always nice when someone goes to the length of contacting a person to ask for permission. Common courtesy.
But I saw a photo I took pop up on someone's facebook page. Who said. oh 'I just found it on the internet' as their defence.

They did remove it. Incidentally they also ran a facebook group, and then blocked me.
 
At present I think the numerous facebook groups are probably the worst offenders for disregarding copyright, but I'm starting to think some facebook special interest pages are more about the personalities operating them and the attention their egos seem to need. 

I work with a guy who gets very annoyed when his uploads don't get a sufficient amount of likes.

Its an increasingly strange world we live in    

[Paultojo]

 

It's always nice when someone goes to the length of contacting a person to ask for permission. Common courtesy.
But I saw a photo I took pop up on someone's facebook page. Who said. oh 'I just found it on the internet' as their defence.

They did remove it. Incidentally they also ran a facebook group, and then blocked me.
 
At present I think the numerous facebook groups are probably the worst offenders for disregarding copyright, but I'm starting to think some facebook special interest pages are more about the personalities operating them and the attention their egos seem to need. 

I work with a guy who gets very annoyed when his uploads don't get a sufficient amount of likes.

Its an increasingly strange world we live in    

Totally agree it's bonkers, I don't mind the Facebook picture posters too much it's fun sometimes to vent a bit of stream that haven't given you credit but the ones that get both barrels are those that claim they have taken the image or even inferred they have grrr

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