Comments on: You Never Know Where Your Online Photos May End Up http://dptnt.com/2009/06/you-never-know-where-your-online-photos-may-end-up/ All about digital photography - DPTnT Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:53:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Uffe http://dptnt.com/2009/06/you-never-know-where-your-online-photos-may-end-up/#comment-867 Uffe Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:10:37 +0000 http://dptnt.com/?p=2573#comment-867 I completely agree with the guidelines above, but unfortunately they are not enough. I have a little visited blog, on which a friend and I publish photographs we have taken (usually taken the same day they are published). One of these had vastly more viewings than any other, so I thought it might have found it's way onto some other pages. An hour or so of using Google, Yahoo and Altavista provided me with a set of web pages on which I found my photograph, and _nobody_ had asked for permission to use it. I don't mind the individuals who put my picture on their personal web pages, but would like to be asked before the fact. Those individuals I caught with my photograph on their web pages got an angrily worded email from me, asking them to either make the picture on their page into a link to my page, or remove the picture. All have complied. I did, however, also find the same picture on two web pages of a commercial nature. And this is not OK with me. If my picture is to be used in a commercial setting, I shall be asked for permission before the fact. And if I choose to not give permission, my photograph shall not be used. As things were, I sent Jay Klusky and Gita Rebbapragada an invoice for SEK 3000 each, as per Swedish standard procedure in cases like this. Neither has payed, and Jay Klusky has sent me an email saying, point blank, that he will not pay me since I have suffered no damage. Both Jay Klusky and Gita Rebbapragada saw to it that my picture was gone from their web pages within hours of me sending the invoice (the next working day). Gita Rebbapragada had the entire web page withdrawn, whereas Jay Klusky replaced my picture with another. Strangely enough, he has not seen it fit to replace the very same picture (ie _my_ picture) on another of his web pages... Some more info, for those who care: Jay Klusky had my picture on his front page (www.jayklusky.com), from which it is gone. It still remains on http://www.jayklusky.com/Jay_Klusky,Ph.D./Mentor.html. Gita Rebbapragada has (had?) an email address to Duke University, and her web page (http://www.footprintsconference.com) was used to advertise a conference that Duke University was involved in in some way. Although she owns the domain name herself I draw the conclusion she was acting as an employee of or student at Duke University. If you use Yahoo to look after a picture using "footprints in the snow" as search term you will find her web site in the results list, nicely displaying my photograph. Further reading available at: http://photo.net/business-photography-forum/00T5B5 and for those who understand Swedish (or will use a robot translator) at http://www.fotosidan.se/forum/showthread.php?threadid=105513 . Links to all web pages concerned can be found on both of these pages. I completely agree with the guidelines above, but unfortunately they are not enough.

I have a little visited blog, on which a friend and I publish photographs we have taken (usually taken the same day they are published). One of these had vastly more viewings than any other, so I thought it might have found it’s way onto some other pages.

An hour or so of using Google, Yahoo and Altavista provided me with a set of web pages on which I found my photograph, and _nobody_ had asked for permission to use it.

I don’t mind the individuals who put my picture on their personal web pages, but would like to be asked before the fact. Those individuals I caught with my photograph on their web pages got an angrily worded email from me, asking them to either make the picture on their page into a link to my page, or remove the picture. All have complied.

I did, however, also find the same picture on two web pages of a commercial nature. And this is not OK with me. If my picture is to be used in a commercial setting, I shall be asked for permission before the fact. And if I choose to not give permission, my photograph shall not be used.

As things were, I sent Jay Klusky and Gita Rebbapragada an invoice for SEK 3000 each, as per Swedish standard procedure in cases like this. Neither has payed, and Jay Klusky has sent me an email saying, point blank, that he will not pay me since I have suffered no damage.

Both Jay Klusky and Gita Rebbapragada saw to it that my picture was gone from their web pages within hours of me sending the invoice (the next working day). Gita Rebbapragada had the entire web page withdrawn, whereas Jay Klusky replaced my picture with another. Strangely enough, he has not seen it fit to replace the very same picture (ie _my_ picture) on another of his web pages…

Some more info, for those who care: Jay Klusky had my picture on his front page (www.jayklusky.com), from which it is gone. It still remains on http://www.jayklusky.com/Jay_Klusky,Ph.D./Mentor.html.
Gita Rebbapragada has (had?) an email address to Duke University, and her web page (http://www.footprintsconference.com) was used to advertise a conference that Duke University was involved in in some way. Although she owns the domain name herself I draw the conclusion she was acting as an employee of or student at Duke University. If you use Yahoo to look after a picture using “footprints in the snow” as search term you will find her web site in the results list, nicely displaying my photograph.

Further reading available at: http://photo.net/business-photography-forum/00T5B5 and for those who understand Swedish (or will use a robot translator) at http://www.fotosidan.se/forum/showthread.php?threadid=105513 . Links to all web pages concerned can be found on both of these pages.

]]> By: picmax http://dptnt.com/2009/06/you-never-know-where-your-online-photos-may-end-up/#comment-849 picmax Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:28:21 +0000 http://dptnt.com/?p=2573#comment-849 Not all images stolen were used as is or with simple scaling. The photos may be incorporated into a design that effectively makes it impossible to identify. More impractical reason is to upload every photos you want to check. It may take huge amount of time. There are actually quite a few people who use images without renaming them. Just search for "istock_" and you will find many images from iStockPhoto. Not all images stolen were used as is or with simple scaling. The photos may be incorporated into a design that effectively makes it impossible to identify.

More impractical reason is to upload every photos you want to check. It may take huge amount of time.

There are actually quite a few people who use images without renaming them. Just search for “istock_” and you will find many images from iStockPhoto.

]]> By: Michael H http://dptnt.com/2009/06/you-never-know-where-your-online-photos-may-end-up/#comment-844 Michael H Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:18:26 +0000 http://dptnt.com/?p=2573#comment-844 I also used to always use a unique filename in my images. BUt it is too easy to rename images. I recently found Tin Eye (http://tineye.com/) a reverse image search. It seems to work for finding images that match the binary data of the image file. So if you load an image into Tin Eye it will actually find all the images on the web that look similar to your image. It pretty cool. Michael sinar - broncolor - foba I also used to always use a unique filename in my images. BUt it is too easy to rename images. I recently found Tin Eye (http://tineye.com/) a reverse image search. It seems to work for finding images that match the binary data of the image file. So if you load an image into Tin Eye it will actually find all the images on the web that look similar to your image. It pretty cool.

Michael
sinar – broncolor – foba

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