How to ensure no one is stealing your images or otherwise not crediting your work online

For Firefox and Chrome users, there is also a free plug-in.

When installed, the user can simply right click on an image and search Google, Tineye, and others for additional instances.

Very good info, Brian. Don’t think I have to worry about my projects, but some of the more talented LJ’s might.

Thanks for the tutorial.

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Thanks for the tip

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Youse guys thinking that ol’ Ted’s Woodworking uses this method to find more projects to steal? :-)

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Thanks for the information. As far as doing anything about misappropriation of one’s work, there is not much that can be done if that work was not copyrighted before being introduced into the public domain. So, you are right on about satisfaction being from calling BS on uncredited use.

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Easy enough to put a watermark on your photo’s using any of a number of software programs.

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There’s not a lot you can do legally. You can complain to the site owner or his web hosting service. If you’re pic is on eBay and you see your image on another listing you can get eBay to take down their listing. Webmasters have long had some sneaky tricks to pull on other websites that use their images from their hosting. I’ve even done it, myself. You just change the filename of the original image shown on your site, then upload some other odd image and give it the old filename. This puts a new image of your choice on their website in place of the one they stole. I just used a graphic with text I made that says “this image originated from www.mysite.com”. Some webmasters have been less kind, though, sending them all manner of atrocious imagery.

You’re right BARRY, if anyone is interested, it’s called “Who stole my picture”. I have it on my computer and find it comes in handy.

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The Family workshop have been trough this a few times, so we have trademarked and copyrighted Our drawings and Products. As a hobby or smal producer thats far to expensive to be usefull. But still a watermark could at least prove that you produced it first. Its happened many times trough the years that i have been to exibitions and come upon someone producing and selling Things made from my fathers or grandfathers designs, they usualy get pretty ashamed if confronted With it. Most at least, some People is without shame. Nice and informative post.

Some Things i just cant post here on lumberjocks, since i have customer confidiality on many Projects, and are only alowed to show it to potencial customer and similar, so even if i could show it here, on lumberjocks it could get copied by a journalist or something and get to the papers, witch would be wery bad both for my customer and me. I have encountered some sites that have protection on pics so you cant copy them, but how Advanced that is and how mutch work it is i dont know.

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