Another reason to copyright mark your images?

Kerioak

Kerioak

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http://photography.suite101.com/article.cfm/biggest_ever_copyright_abuse

The entries for this competition have now closed but when I looked at earlier it seemed that just about any image on the web could be entered. Certainly any image that MSN have found on their trawl through the net. I found some of my images from sites I have removed from the web months ago - plus some images from a TP thread in April

They strip out the exif data so all that links a picture to a particular photographer is any copyright mark written on the picture itself - maybe it does not look pretty but it does show that it is not free for public use for anyone who finds it via a search engine
 
And Microsoft have the cheek to complain about pirates using copies of Windows xxx. :bonk:
 
Does anyone use Digimarc?
 
They contacted us and asked us to put their search box code on our website....

I think our answer sounded like "No cooking day".
 
Hope someone whos photo makes it into this final stage invoices them for using their photo, will be interesting to watch.
 
My London Irish try photo is in there too:|
 
hypnotic said:
That flamingo shot is mine ... :rules:
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kelack said:
My London Irish try photo is in there too:|
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LadyLens said:
Theres one of my shots of the yorkshire moors in that lot too and loads I recognise from round here. :nono:
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If you mean your shots show in the link that Kerioak posted below then yeah they will do, it is a search engine. The bit about copyright infringment was to do with their competition thingy.

Guessed they might do something like that Kerioak, shame really - would have been an interesting argument if they had just shoved stuff up on the competition site.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
If you mean your shots show in the link that Kerioak posted below then yeah they will do, it is a search engine. The bit about copyright infringment was to do with their competition thingy.

Guessed they might do something like that Kerioak, shame really - would have been an interesting argument if they had just shoved stuff up on the competition site.
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I don't have much problem with images apperaing in search engines, but in this case the photos would not link back to the original site. All the exif data had been stripped out as well.

I had stuff in there from my flickr pages and my own site. A couple of the images, from flickr are marked private and only viewable by myself. I have made a complaint to flickr about this as they say if you do not wnat anybody to see the images set them as private. Well that did not work.

Lets see what type of reply I get, if I even get one.
 
I wonder just what will happen with this "competition" as it seems the judge from Nikon has pulled out http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/374/173/

There is also more information on this link - competition rules and advice that might help clear up some of the confusion I caused in my post to Marcel above with the link to a TP search :eek:
 
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