{"id":3440,"date":"2013-10-24T08:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T07:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2013-10-24T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T07:29:42","slug":"whos-stealing-your-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"Who’s stealing your photos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image-Theft\"<\/a>Warning! This blog post might cause annoyance and paranoia\u2026 but don\u2019t let that stop you reading it!<\/p>\n

Thanks to the internet, image theft is on the rise and the harsh reality is there\u2019s not much us photographers can do to stop it.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t think for a second that it will only be your best work that\u2019s at risk. Take a look at how many times my snap shot of a pile of memory cards has been used by others (all without my permission). It\u2019s hardly a photo I\u2019m ever going to print out but it\u2019s probably my most stolen!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just photographers. In the past week I know of someone who found one of her photos published in a magazine without her knowledge. To be fair to the magazine, they were sent it by a reader who claimed it was there\u2019s. Neither the owner of the photo nor the magazine is connected to photography.<\/p>\n

Minimise the risk<\/span><\/strong>
\nShort of not uploading anything to the internet, what can you do to stop image theft?<\/p>\n

Well, first off you could stop worrying about it. Everyday Facebook users add 300 million photos, so the chances of anyone stealing yours are mathematically very small. You might want to add a watermark to your images or add copyright metadata. Yes they can be easily removed but they can also act as a deterrent to the casual image thief.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the option for making you photos available with a Creative Commons licence<\/b><\/a> allowing your images to be used in certain ways and not in others.<\/p>\n

\"Image-Theft-2\"<\/a>Finding your Images<\/b><\/span>
\nSo who\u2019s using your images without permission? Well probably no one but there are ways to check with the help of a couple of websites. Here are two I\u2019d recommend.<\/p>\n

Google Reverse Image<\/b> <\/a>Search is like a backwards version of Google\u2019s usual image search. Instead of find images that match words it finds images that match images and then tells you where they are. It\u2019s quick, free and very accurate.<\/p>\n

To find it go to Google\u2019s Image search, click the camera icon and paste a link to an image you want to match. Alternatively you can upload a sample image.<\/p>\n

The results are displayed just like any other Google search.<\/p>\n

\"Image-Theft-3\"<\/a>TinEye<\/b><\/a> has been around longer then Google but doesn\u2019t have the reach of Google\u2019s reverse image search. Just like Google you can search using an image that\u2019s already online or upload your own.<\/p>\n

One nice feature is the option to look at a whole webpage for images and you can choose which of those you want to search for.<\/p>\n

TinEye doesn\u2019t have the reach of Google but don\u2019t rule it out. Sometimes if finds results Google misses.<\/p>\n

What to do next<\/strong><\/span>
\nHopefully the only pages using your photos are yours or pages you work with. However if you do find your images in use elsewhere there are a number of things you can do. Some of them involve legal action, not something I do lightly and beyond the scope of this post. However if the transgressor isn\u2019t worth the time and stress legal recourse may require and all you want is the image taken down or credit given, then a polite but firm email often works wonders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning! This blog post might cause annoyance and paranoia\u2026 but don\u2019t let that stop you reading it! Thanks to the internet, image theft is on the rise and the harsh reality is there\u2019s not much us photographers can do to stop it. Don\u2019t think for a second that it will only be your best work … Continue reading Who’s stealing your photos?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,23,136,140,36,34,24,135,138,137],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-copyright","tag-featured","tag-google","tag-licence","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-spotlight","tag-stolen","tag-theft","tag-tineye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}