How to Handle Stolen Images
Posted: August 06, 2019
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Almost all photographers have their images online somewhere. That means that the odds are, at some point, you will likely have one or more of your photos stolen. The common misconception that if an image is on the Internet it's free, continues to be a photographer's worst nightmare. Trying to keep tabs on all your images can be tough - especially if you have a lot of them. The good news is that there are options that track the images for you and handle things in the event an image is stolen.
Darina Kopcok, photographer and contributor to Digital Photography School, shares how to handle stolen images.
If any of your images live online in any shape or form, it is inevitable that they will
get stolen.
With the Internet, copyright infringement has become rampant and is a worldwide phenomenon.
Some individuals don’t understand copyright and think that because an image appears online that it’s theirs for the taking.
However, there are a lot of
companies that steal images and use them
for commercial purposes – to sell their own products!
How do you know if your image has been stolen?
You can do random image searches on your images in Google. This is a cool feature, but rather tedious and incredibly time-consuming. If you have an extensive library of images, this could take more time than you’d want to spend.
A better alternative is sites like
Copytrack,
Pixray or
Pixsy, which are image tracking services that not only find your stolen images but also will file a copyright infringement claim and sue for damages on your behalf.
Read the entire article,
What to Do When Your Images Get Stolen, on
Digital Photography School.