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Using photos without permission.

  • 29-09-2009 4:22pm
    #1
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm not talking about people printing your photos, I'm talking about web distribution. I've looked through my Flickr stats and there's loads of my photos on different forums etc, which doesn't bother me too much because they're mostly linked back or someone's just added them to a thread for show.

    But when I google certain phrases I sometimes see my images hosted on other sites where they've been downloaded and re-uploaded again on a different server for articles and reviews etc.

    I wouldn't have minded them being used if people had asked, but it's annoying me now! :mad:


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  • #2
    Eirebear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    Yeah ive recently found a few of mines on different sites too, kinda pisses me off.

    Ive emailed the websites in question and recieved no reply, not sure where to go from there unfortunately.


  • #3
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I'm thinking about sticking a paragraph on my flicker profile page to say "Companies who use my images without permission will be invoice €1,000 per image." that way they've been warned about the charges and I can sue them if they don't pay! :D haha


  • #4
    joolsveer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭joolsveer


    How did you go about tracing your photos?


  • #5
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    http://www.flickr.com/photos/USERNAME/stats/ - gives a list of where your hits are coming from. I then noticed the keywords that were linking to my photos from google images and yahoo images so I ran searches to see how high they came up in the results, from here I noticed some of my pics, but they weren't linked to Flickr.


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