Flickr Stats - find out who's stealing your photos!

helios

So, 'working from home' today, I decided to look through the stats on my Flickr account. There's a section called 'referring domains' that will show where requests for your photos have come from.

Who likes the background on this MySpace page?

I do...

rymus

first things first.. turn off your all sizes option.

Then, pursue your image thief.

Paulw

Image is CC (not Copyright), so I guess the Myspace person is allowed use (assuming they credit you).

helios

CC I don't mind, but, she hasn't even followed the CC guidelines

Dades

Like most MySpace pages - that one looks hideous.

Not the fault of your pic of course!

Paulw

Just edit your photo (using Piknik on FlickR) and that will resolve the issue.

DadaKopf

I get around thiefing by only having lo-res versions of photos online and activating full copyright. Then you can't download photos. It's annoying to have photos thiefed.

countryjimbo

Paulw wrote: »

Just edit your photo (using Piknik on FlickR) and that will resolve the issue.

Yeah give that a go

helios

Done. Did it in Italian since that seems to be where Mrs. Thief is from...

challengemaster

DadaKopf wrote: »

I get around thiefing by only having lo-res versions of photos online and activating full copyright. Then you can't download photos. It's annoying to have photos thiefed.

actually you can still download them.. There's a bug in that which i found, and notified flickr about.. no response on it yet, though

Hugh_C

challengemaster wrote: »

actually you can still download them.. There's a bug in that which i found, and notified flickr about.. no response on it yet, though

Is that the very-edge-of-the-picture control click trick? Yeah, works on Mac dunno about other platforms.

The updated version of your picture doesn't appear on her site helios, she must have downloaded it and used a copy.

helios

hughchal wrote: »

The updated version of your picture doesn't appear on her site helios, she must have downloaded it and used a copy.

Yeah seems like it... I checked the source and it seems to be coming directly from Flickr. MySpace seems to have a specific email address for copyright thieves anyways, may give them a shout.

Paulw

It might be cached in the myspace server, so give it 24hrs and see.

It does look like it's coming directly from your FlickR account.

challengemaster

hughchal wrote: »

Is that the very-edge-of-the-picture control click trick? Yeah, works on Mac dunno about other platforms.

yup, thats the one - works on other platforms too, I checked on XP and linux, so its a flickr problem

Roen

A bit Off Topic but I found out I came top of google's good shag list.

Hooray for me!.

On Topic again, I'd suggest you limit the all sizes to Friends and Family, that way you know who to clatter if someone nicks one of your pics.

AnCatDubh

Just a point for people to consider - Activating low-res may prevent commercial use due to the resulting quality issues but low res images may still be useful for a web page to someone. Even someone taking a screen grab may yield something of use if cropped in photoshop.

Heres a *neat* trick that I think people should be aware with flickr and most (nearly all i think) other web pages that a very useful feature of firefox (no ie equivalent) is a thing called page info. Go to any flickr page with a 'protected image' -> right click your mouse on a blank bit -> select page info -> go to media tab -> scroll through the list of media with helpful previews to show you the content of what you are looking at -> when you find the ditty you are trying to rob/copy/acquire by ill gotten means; click save as.

But even "View Page Source" in all browsers exposes the locations of the web page treasures - like your images which then becomes quite downloadable. One trick that page designers will do is to complicate the readable source to 'hide' the relevant code - but in essence they are all in there and available to you if you have the patience to extract them.

Firefox rocks - don't blame the tool! The nature of the web however is that you are sending images and other media across the web and is cached locally and perfectly decipherable to any clever app that wants to take hold of it either locally in the cache or downloaded on line.

Flash sites may be marginally better in so far as they embed the images being displayed within the flash objects, but these can also be copied but a bit more difficult to work with if someone is trying to use the photos contained therein as jpg images.

Obviously this doesn't condone the behavior of someone who willfully plagiarises, but lets be realistic here - in practical terms (not right or wrong) - the web should be thought of as a mechanism through which your work will be 'shared' - after all; that is why we put our work on things like flickr. If someone chooses to abuse the privilege of viewing your work, then the web is a very poor enforcer of your rights as the creator of the work. I guess it was never designed that way.

So be warned and careful about where you store your treasures.

helios

Turns out the plot is thickening... The photo is being used by a site that makes themes for MySpace. What's even more juicey is that I found that the photo is being hosted by Amazon's hosting service! They now receieved a nice little emailing saying that they're hosting a copyrighted work without the owners permissions or knowledge, and that I'm seeking 'compensation'....

Ideo

Kind of on topic/ kind of off topic but have a look at this photo on Flickr. The whole area of infringment of copyright seems to be really coming to the fore recently. Guess it goes hand in hand with the proliferation of DSLRs and online photo hosting!

ShakeyBlakey

well if anybody wants to steal my pic i'd be too happy to help them, this isnt about money, its about ppl liking my pics, me liking my pics, and the more places it gets to the better as far as i'm concernd, why put it on the net ?, if its on the net its on the net............save picture as..??????????, have it, i'd like u to...

Ricky91t

ShakeyBlakey wrote: »

well if anybody wants to steal my pic i'd be too happy to help them, this isnt about money, its about ppl liking my pics, me liking my pics, and the more places it gets to the better as far as i'm concernd, why put it on the net ?, if its on the net its on the net............save picture as..??????????, have it, i'd like u to...

Yeah i would'nt be bothered if it was left on the net id love to see it as a myspace profile.But i supose when i get older and more experienced maybe i wont...If it says on the web i see no problem with it IF however i saw it on a dvd cover(was posted on this or another forum)id contact them about money:p

ShakeyBlakey

ricky91t wrote: »

Yeah i would'nt be bothered if it was left on the net id love to see it as a myspace profile.But i supose when i get older and more experienced maybe i wont...If it says on the web i see no problem with it IF however i saw it on a dvd cover(was posted on this or another forum)id contact them about money:p

ohh if somebody says its theirs i'd be mad too, but if they just say they like it i'd be chuffed