How do you know when someone has nicked one of your images?

sazzle

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Yes I know that may well sound like a daft question but is it really down to luck that you find out?

I've just set up a flickr account and although I'm probably jumping the gun as I don't consider my images to be great (I'm working on it though!), I've read many a time things like 'you'd be surprised what gets nicked.' I copyright my images within the EXIF during PP with 'All Rights Reserved'. Is there anything else I can do to a) protect them, and b) have a better chance of finding out if any do get nicked????

This side of things is new to me so I'm just looking for some advice.

Many thanks
 
The ultimate protection is to leave them on your hard drive, *anything* shown on screen can be copied. Even complex watermarks only delay things.

Sites like Tineye can help find an image you think is being used online, but won't help for printed images (some very unscrupulous magazines out there) and it's not 100% for web usage. Mostly it's just dumb luck if you do spot something being used. And you'll almost never spot the most common uses, e.g. Facebook or homework reports.

Flickr pro stats can be useful for spotting unauthorised usage of images hotlinked to Flickr as the host.
 
I was waiting for a punchline........
 
I have tried tineye a few times, it cant even find my images that I know are online, I don't think it's much good at all IMHO.
 
You'd be better inserting into your camera settings your full name so it's embedded into the EXIF file and your chosen status i.e. sazzlephotography.co.uk - etc.
 
Graham00 said:
You'd be better inserting into your camera settings your full name so it's embedded into the EXIF file and your chosen status i.e. sazzlephotography.co.uk - etc.
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And only upload low res watermarked images...They get fed up downloading low res eventually.
 
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