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Protect your pictures!
Frequently,someone is to become involved in this problem.His(or her)
images and photos on his(or her) store(or website) are accessible to everyone. Maybe the property is being used by others in their store,homepages, forum or newsgroups. I just want to tell you how to make copyright to the pictures that no one can steal your works that you made. There are several ways: 1)you can add watermark Over a Photo in Photoshop,you can read the help article fromhttp://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshop/ht/apswatermark.htm 2)you can include text or emblem at different places in your images with some specialized programs as Bacth watermark creator.Download from http://www.easy-tools.net/download.html. |
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On 5 Jan 2006 04:27:42 -0800, "Jemme Lon" wrote:
Frequently,someone is to become involved in this problem.His(or her) images and photos on his(or her) store(or website) are accessible to everyone. Maybe the property is being used by others in their store,homepages, forum or newsgroups. I just want to tell you how to make copyright to the pictures that no one can steal your works that you made. Copyrighting does not prevent theft of the pictures. It just gives you a basis for legal action against the person that steals them if you know they are stolen and know who's using them. Even then, the cost of pursuing the matter usually exceeds your loss. If I steal your copyrighted image and use it, what are you going to do about it? Is it worth legal fees to stop me? If some large company steals your image, it may be worth the legal fees, but I'm just an individual. You can watermark your image, but I have Photoshop and I can usually clone out your watermark. Unless you're a professional photographer with a great image to protect, you'll just get ulcers worrying about image theft. The really neat situation is where someone links to your image. You can change the source of the link to an image that they...ummm....wouldn't want to put up. -- Tony Cooper Orlando, FL |
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"Tony Cooper" wrote in message ... On 5 Jan 2006 04:27:42 -0800, "Jemme Lon" wrote: Frequently,someone is to become involved in this problem.His(or her) images and photos on his(or her) store(or website) are accessible to everyone. Maybe the property is being used by others in their store,homepages, forum or newsgroups. I just want to tell you how to make copyright to the pictures that no one can steal your works that you made. Copyrighting does not prevent theft of the pictures. It just gives you a basis for legal action against the person that steals them if you know they are stolen and know who's using them. Even then, the cost of pursuing the matter usually exceeds your loss. If I steal your copyrighted image and use it, what are you going to do about it? Is it worth legal fees to stop me? If some large company steals your image, it may be worth the legal fees, but I'm just an individual. You can watermark your image, but I have Photoshop and I can usually clone out your watermark. Unless you're a professional photographer with a great image to protect, you'll just get ulcers worrying about image theft. The really neat situation is where someone links to your image. You can change the source of the link to an image that they...ummm....wouldn't want to put up. -- Tony Cooper Orlando, FL If anybody copied a picture I posted I would feel flattered. Dave Cohen |
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Tony Cooper wrote:
The really neat situation is where someone links to your image. You can change the source of the link to an image that they...ummm....wouldn't want to put up. Yeah, I'm thinking about doing something like that right now. One of my images (a Puerto Rican flag sculpture in Chicago) is hot-linked a LOT by various people, usually just kids using it as a backdrop to their own personal (non-commercial) web sites. This used to annoy me, but I've pretty much gotten over it. However, a commercial outfit is hot-linking another image from my site, and using it as a product photo for something they sell (a particular species of fish). That one irritates me. A lot. I'm considering sending them a bill for unauthorized use of copyrighted image, as well as for the bandwidth. Obviously, I don't have any real expectation of getting paid, but it would at least express my annoyance. Alternately, I could just change the source image to something less, um, saleable. I wouldn't even need to pornographic... A few years ago I dropped a heavy battery on my foot and had my big toenail ripped out at the root, as well as a deep gouge across the nail bed. Once I regained consciousness (hey, it HURT!), I took a couple of photos of the very colorful area of impact. Ya reckon a big bloody toe picture would help sell fish? :) |
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:33:03 -0600, "Eric Schreiber" eric at
ericschreiber dot com wrote: I took a couple of photos of the very colorful area of impact. Ya reckon a big bloody toe picture would help sell fish? :) SHARK!! SHARK!!!! |
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"Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com writes:
However, a commercial outfit is hot-linking another image from my site, and using it as a product photo for something they sell (a particular species of fish). That one irritates me. A lot. First thing to try is sending them an email asking them to cut it out. I'm considering sending them a bill for unauthorized use of copyrighted image, as well as for the bandwidth. That would be bogus and probably accomplish nothing. Obviously, I don't have any real expectation of getting paid, but it would at least express my annoyance. Alternately, I could just change the source image to something less, um, saleable. That's a much better plan. You could set the server to check the referer header to ONLY serve the unsaleable image to transclusions from that commercial site. I wouldn't even need to pornographic... A few years ago I dropped a heavy battery on my foot and had my big toenail ripped out at the root, Heh heh, I like that. |
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"Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com wrote
Ya reckon a big bloody toe picture would help sell fish? :) Sweet idea - especially if you add a bit of text explaining the situation for the browsing punter... RobG |
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Eric Schreiber wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote: The really neat situation is where someone links to your image. You can change the source of the link to an image that they...ummm....wouldn't want to put up. Yeah, I'm thinking about doing something like that right now. One of my images (a Puerto Rican flag sculpture in Chicago) is hot-linked a LOT by various people, usually just kids using it as a backdrop to their own personal (non-commercial) web sites. This used to annoy me, but I've pretty much gotten over it. However, a commercial outfit is hot-linking another image from my site, and using it as a product photo for something they sell (a particular species of fish). That one irritates me. A lot. This is what lawyers are for. If you really want to have any chance of collecting, have a consultation and run the plan past them first to see if it has any flaws. For example, here's one approach: First, make sure that your website has a notice regarding unauthorized copyright use. Similarly, make sure that your hotlinked photo does clearly have your (C) displayed on it (in addition to a hidden watermark). Make sure that this version of the image is in place long enough to get into Google, and the old version has been purged out of their archives. Grabbing a copy of their source code is a good idea too. This is all prep work before you give them any notification of the unauthorized use. I'm considering sending them a bill for unauthorized use of copyrighted image, as well as for the bandwidth. IMO, I suspect that its probably more successful to send them a very bland invoice, with the terms of use specified, dates, etc. The general approach is to let them assume that someone within their organization had initiated this (which they did, by creating the hot link) and you're just following-up (which you are). Alternately, I could just change the source image to something less, um, saleable. After they ignore your invoice for, say, 30 days, replace your original with a "ghosted out" copy of it with text over it, such as this: http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2002/germany/euros.jpg In your case, the message should be something along the lines of: "Image removed because account is more than 30 days overdue" Make sure to include your email address in this text-over for them to contact you at. Be polite and offer to fax them a new invoice...with an overdue acount fee, of course. -hh |
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Well, that is all find until it starts costing your money for the extra
bandwidth that the kids steal by linking to your images. That is when you replace the image with a nice nude of George W Bush. If that doesn't cause enough trama then find one of Margaret Thatcher. That will definately do it. R "Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com wrote in message ... Tony Cooper wrote: The really neat situation is where someone links to your image. You can change the source of the link to an image that they...ummm....wouldn't want to put up. Yeah, I'm thinking about doing something like that right now. One of my images (a Puerto Rican flag sculpture in Chicago) is hot-linked a LOT by various people, usually just kids using it as a backdrop to their own personal (non-commercial) web sites. This used to annoy me, but I've pretty much gotten over it. However, a commercial outfit is hot-linking another image from my site, and using it as a product photo for something they sell (a particular species of fish). That one irritates me. A lot. I'm considering sending them a bill for unauthorized use of copyrighted image, as well as for the bandwidth. Obviously, I don't have any real expectation of getting paid, but it would at least express my annoyance. Alternately, I could just change the source image to something less, um, saleable. I wouldn't even need to pornographic... A few years ago I dropped a heavy battery on my foot and had my big toenail ripped out at the root, as well as a deep gouge across the nail bed. Once I regained consciousness (hey, it HURT!), I took a couple of photos of the very colorful area of impact. Ya reckon a big bloody toe picture would help sell fish? :) |
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Paul Rubin wrote:
I'm considering sending them a bill for unauthorized use of copyrighted image, as well as for the bandwidth. That would be bogus and probably accomplish nothing. Well, I don't know about bogus. The main intent would be to vent my spleen just a tiny bit. I'm certain that my chance of being paid for such an invoice is about nil. And I'm equally sure that unless it's a very small business indeed, the person receiving the invoice wouldn't even know who was in charge of the web site. A few years ago I dropped a heavy battery on my foot and had my big toenail ripped out at the root, Heh heh, I like that. That I had my toenail ripped out, or using the image? :) |
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