Someone stealing your pictures off your website?

On my website I have some custom made photos and graphics. So today I checked to see if anyone was using them and sure enough I discovered them on other sites that were industry specific to my site.

If you want to check if you are having this problem
go to google.....click images on top of page.
then drag and drop your photos into google.

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5 replies	Author	Time	Post
Someone stealing your pictures off your website? (Original post)	Berserker	Oct 2012	OP
You can always watermark them	RoccoR5955	Oct 2012	#1
Borders and small print in a corner can be easily cropped out.	RC	Oct 2012	#2
tineye.com is another great tool...	ChromeFoundry	Oct 2012	#3
I just look at my server logs	blogslut	Oct 2012	#4
Hot linking is not the same as stealing/copying the picture.	ManiacJoe	Nov 2012	#5

Response to Berserker (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 08:45 PM

RoccoR5955 (6,498 posts)

1. You can always watermark them

and get them copyrighted, and put it in a border, or very small print in the corner of the photo.

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Response to RoccoR5955 (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 09:03 PM

RC (21,640 posts)

2. Borders and small print in a corner can be easily cropped out.

A copyright notice inside the picture (file) are harder to remove.
Water marks are good though.

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Response to Berserker (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 11:47 PM

ChromeFoundry (2,856 posts)

3. tineye.com is another great tool...

for reverse image searching... http://www.tineye.com/

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Response to Berserker (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 06:41 PM

blogslut (27,298 posts)

4. I just look at my server logs

As for someone hotlinking me, it depends on the source. If it's some member at a board, I just slap a nice semi-transparent watermark with my website address right across the original image and re-upload it with the same file name. That way, my site gets a little free publicity.

If it's someone I don't like, I make a text image saying something snarky and rename it to match the stolen image file.

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Response to blogslut (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 1, 2012, 06:32 PM

ManiacJoe (5,584 posts)

5. Hot linking is not the same as stealing/copying the picture.

However, hot linking does steal your bandwidth.

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