New [stolen] image search tool from Google

None of mine found, other than the one's I've given to friends! Quite sad in a way. Haha.
 
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Its a very interesting piece of code actually that does seem to have some quite remarkable capabilities.

For example, it can recognise my photos of Lorenzo and show me other Lorenzo photos, it can spot that I have hot linked some of my images to threads on TP BUT what it doesn't appear to be able to do is to spot a photo thats nearly identical - for example some of my work is published (legit) on other websites, sans watermark... and it didn't spot those...

Its good, but not perfect.
 
Well unlike tineye this actually seems to work, I just did a quick test and found a couple of mine I knew where out and about shall we say, tineye never found anything I tried.
 
specialman said:
Maybe this is a mac/safari thing but all I get is the big, grey 'search images' button and the blue 'advanced image search' link next to it no camera icon...
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Not a mac/safari issue, it works fine on my set-up

OSX 10.6.8
Safari 5.0.5

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Found one of mine on a japanese or chinese site. Can't understand any of it so no idea who to contact for removal.
 
PsiFox said:
Found one of mine on a japanese or chinese site. Can't understand any of it so no idea who to contact for removal.
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Try google translate.
 
Musicman said:
So, two images, each being used as page banners at 780 x 260 on thirteen commercial web sites and 480 × 214 in a Flash banner on another.

How much is that worth? :)

[I may have to rope my cousin's Italian husband in for translation of a letter]
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The photos even have my EXIF data in them still!

So, er, londonfreelance.org's rates guide suggests £850.00 for 800x600 for 1 year on a commercial site.

£850 x 2 images x 16 sites = £27,200

A quick check at archive.org suggests that the site redesign may have happened some time early in 2008, certainly by June 2009. It's obvious that all these dealers are using a common template, but they're separate sites with their own domains.

For the sake of argument, let's say three years: £81,600

and another pic of mine that I've found is used on three other sites in the group, possibly more, so that's another £7650 at least

Double rate for unauthorised use? £178,500 :thinking: :eek::bat:
 
Do let us all know how that goes then... and if by some miracle you might be able to stick 1000 quid behind the TP bar.

Alternatively...
 
mich66 said:
second image down is mine on here.. I took it in march 2008 from the london eye but apparantly its his from 2009! http://fotos.alcalleop.cat/gallery/v/toni/mon/londres/
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The two photos of Routemaster buses are incorrectly dated (as October 2006) too.

RMs stopped running on route 94 in January 2004 and on route 159 on 9th December 2005 - I was at Brixton garage with a few thousand other people to see the last service in.

[latest update, 21 Italian VW dealers]
 
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Do all the letters have to be sent by recorded delivery? It is already looking very expensive given the volume of piracy

I hope there will be some automated flickr tool to scan everything. It should be possible with flickr api.
 
Hmm..just found lots of annoying tumblr and blogspot blogs that have used some of mine. Wish people contacted me beforehand and linked to me when they did this..
 
Cool, I just drag the image from desktop into the Firefox browser and it works.
 
Checking back in... now at 74 web sites of Italian VW dealers using my images.

Tum te tum... :whistling:
 
Does this Google image camera icon appear on FireFox 4 in windows 7?

I tried the link on my work pc which is explorer 7 and xp and the little camera icon didn't appear.
 
Tori said:
Are you totally sure they're yours??
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Utterly. They're unique shots to begin with and could not have been reproduced (if you can reproduce a pattern of raindrops on a car bonnet to pixel perfection, I'll tip my hat to you).*

However, to seal it, they've left the EXIF data intact and it has the serial number of my camera (along with all the other shooting data, such as date and time, etc) embedded in the versions on the Italian sites.

What they have remembered to remove was my watermark. :rules:

* or indeed my own reflection in one case :D
 
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By hell, this sounds like one heck of a payday for some of you!
 
Definitely, I've found one on a commercial website, I sent them a slightly snotty email explaining the situation, and the reply I got back (very quickly, to their credit) was apologetic and that they would remove it straight away. As I was reading it my train pulled into the station so I couldn't reply. When I got back to my emails at lunch time, there was another one asking me to name a price for future usage! Whether they choose to accept or not is another matter, but even if they decline and take down the image, I won't be losing a penny :lol:
 
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Well done on getting them to reply, lets hope they pay you

Ive found at least 20 so far of my images being used for sit banners, ads, stories, I'll be sending a few emails off soon grabbed all the screen-shots downloaded the pages their on
 
mich66 said:
it does.. open 2 tabs, one the google image search and the other your flickr set.. click your flickr image and drag to the google tag :)
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Thanks!
 
AdamK said:
The camera icon isnt appearing for me on Windows Vista :(
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Give us the full details of the version so we can see if it's isolated to particular version of Vista or your web browser...

Example, it appears fine for me running:
Vista Home Premium 32 bit SP2
Google Chrome v12 / Internet Explorer v9 / Firefox v4
 
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I have found 1 unauthorised use of one of mine (genuinely surprised if I am honest).

Unfortunately it seems that there's no contact details on the site :(

edit: looks like a SEO linking site the only purpose of which is to boost page ranks of other pages. Even if I do find a contact I suspect I won't even get a response.
 
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If they have their own domain, you can look it up using whois

Not always guaranteed to be accurate, but it may give you a good start.
 
Musicman said:
If they have their own domain, you can look it up using whois

Not always guaranteed to be accurate, but it may give you a good start.
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I did that just after I posted, was having a blonde moment I suspect.

Now the question is how much do I charge them (other than 2x NUJ) but struggling to find the how long as there's no date and their not in the way back machine.
 
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