Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is no way to keep someone from using your photos if you post them on the web. You can post the smallest size possible, but if it is visible on your site, it will be visible when it is copied to another site. Huge, ugly watermarks across the center of the photo will work sometimes. Alamy puts one on their photos and they are still stolen and used with the watermark intact. Watermarks along the edge can be easily cropped out.. Posting copyright notices and following up on unauthorized use with take-down notices will discourage one user at a time. Casual web posters who are looking for something to post in their blogs might be discouraged if right-click copying is disabled but there are ways around that, too. If it is on the web, it is going to be vulnerable to being used without your permission. Sorry :-( Tina On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:53 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > > No matter what you do, somebody will use your photos - usually in a > > web-site so size won't deter them. Post a copyright notice on every page > > and then use Google Images or TinEye to search for unauthorized usage. > > Send them a take-down notice with education about copyright - some are > > totally clueless and think everything on the web is free. If they don't > > take the photo down, send a bill with an official-looking notice from a > > lawyer. I'm making almost as much money from unauthorized usages as from > > legitimate leases these days!! > > > > my goal is not to make money, rather to decrease/eliminate unauthorized > use..... > > what parameters of the images would you advise to accomplish that? > > > > thanks, > > Steve > > > > > > > > Good luck, > > > > Tina > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at > > gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> what are, in your opinion, the best/safest parameters to discourage > >> borrowing/theft of photos on the web? > >> > >> size? resolution? > >> > >> How about 800 pixels on the longest side, and a resolution of 72....? > >> > >> Watermarking while an option, is possible, though I am not likely to do > >> it..... > >> > >> > >> many thanks for your input, > >> > >> > >> > >> Steve > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com