Comments on: Help, my image has been stolen! What next… http://blog.microstockgroup.com/help-my-image-has-been-stolen-what-next/ Microstock forum highlights, microstock tips, and industry news and reviews Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:34:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zita Effland http://blog.microstockgroup.com/help-my-image-has-been-stolen-what-next/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Zita Effland Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:43:03 +0000 http://blog.microstockgroup.com/?p=428#comment-244 nice info!!! nice info!!!

]]> By: anonymous http://blog.microstockgroup.com/help-my-image-has-been-stolen-what-next/comment-page-1/#comment-178 anonymous Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:10:03 +0000 http://blog.microstockgroup.com/?p=428#comment-178 thats a good article by Dan Heller. If you put your stuff up on the net -watermark it! that is your best bet the other thing you can do is not put your images up at all. But we forget that the worst pirates of all are google themselves! Just have a look at how google images works. Your image comes up and is easily downloadable (even if on your site you took precautions for this to note the case, the search engine bypasses that) and they darken out your site in the background so that your site does not even have to be visited! yay! It amuses me that people focus on other little people and not on the huge stealer of images GOOGLE! oh by the way they also have ads on google images so they make money out of your site as well as encouraging image stealing. Just look at google books: http://www.juicydesserts.com/ entire book content stolen and no one makes a peep about it! thats a good article by Dan Heller.
If you put your stuff up on the net -watermark it! that is your best bet the other thing you can do is not put your images up at all.

But we forget that the worst pirates of all are google themselves! Just have a look at how google images works. Your image comes up and is easily downloadable (even if on your site you took precautions for this to note the case, the search engine bypasses that) and they darken out your site in the background so that your site does not even have to be visited! yay! It amuses me that people focus on other little people and not on the huge stealer of images GOOGLE! oh by the way they also have ads on google images so they make money out of your site as well as encouraging image stealing.

Just look at google books: http://www.juicydesserts.com/ entire book content stolen and no one makes a peep about it!

]]> By: Dan Heller http://blog.microstockgroup.com/help-my-image-has-been-stolen-what-next/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Dan Heller Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:05:58 +0000 http://blog.microstockgroup.com/?p=428#comment-77 While this article is interesting, it stops short of what you do about serious infringements. Having images removed from websites may help one feel less "violated" as an artist, but it doesn't really serve much purpose. A great deal of time and effort is spent on the process yet yields no income at all, and even removes the potential value of your image being used for search engine rankings and other internet-wide diagnostics. Most importantly, the article doesn't even touch upon the process for handling serious infringements. For info about that, see this article: http://www.danheller.com/blog/posts/stolen-photos-copyright-infringement.html While this article is interesting, it stops short of what you do about serious infringements. Having images removed from websites may help one feel less “violated” as an artist, but it doesn’t really serve much purpose. A great deal of time and effort is spent on the process yet yields no income at all, and even removes the potential value of your image being used for search engine rankings and other internet-wide diagnostics.

Most importantly, the article doesn’t even touch upon the process for handling serious infringements. For info about that, see this article:

http://www.danheller.com/blog/posts/stolen-photos-copyright-infringement.html

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