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A lot of my images appear on wallpaper sites with seemingly no contact details. I would like them removed, I suspect they are taken from Flickr. I do have full image download off.
 
You could try and find out who they are hosted with and contact the hosts. If it is US based, DMCA notices can work very well, send to their domain registrars also.

Hosts in other countries maybe a bit more difficult.

Search their domain using a whois service and that may give indication of their host.
 
Brazo said:
... I do have full image download off.
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If you have any photos which are worth stealing, then turning off download won't help. Once on Flickr's "Photo / All Sizes" page users of Firefox are only 3 key strokes and a couple of clicks away from downloading your "protected" photo. No special skills or software is needed.

Uploading at a maximum of 800x600px may help, as wallpaper sites probably want fullscreen images which will need to be bigger than that.

I only have 25 pictures on my public flickr, but one of those has proved popular with several bloggers, and I have been unable to get it removed.
 
I think downloading images to flick should not have a resolution higher than 1040 pixels along the longest edge, as the image size is restricted and wouldn't be of much use to a wall paper site

Les ;)
 
graphilly said:
You could try and find out who they are hosted with and contact the hosts. If it is US based, DMCA notices can work very well, send to their domain registrars also.

Hosts in other countries maybe a bit more difficult.

Search their domain using a whois service and that may give indication of their host.
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If they're hosted in the eu they'll have a take down process to. Outside of the eu or us is much harder
 
Thanks guys I might just suck it up then and ensure future uploads are kept to a smaller size. I currently use light rooms sync feature with Flickr which is very handy and great way to organise. It would appear that my cityscape shots that get explored are targeted the most.

On one of these sites someone has posted it as there own work and thanked someone for commenting on it!!!!

This is one example, there are plenty more!
http://www.goodfon.com/wallpaper/london-the-shard-england.html

My shot on Flickr

Standing Tall by Brazo76, on Flickr
 
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Brazo said:
Thanks guys I might just suck it up then and ensure future uploads are kept to a smaller size. I currently use light rooms sync feature with Flickr which is very handy and great way to organise. It would appear that my cityscape shots that get explored are targeted the most.

On one of these sites someone has posted it as there own work and thanked someone for commenting on it!!!!

This is one example, there are plenty more!
http://www.goodfon.com/wallpaper/london-the-shard-england.html

My shot on Flickr

Standing Tall by Brazo76, on Flickr
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in less than 10 seconds i had downloaded the 2048 x 1354 version.
 
neil_g said:
in less than 10 seconds i had downloaded the 2048 x 1354 version.
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Exactly.

If it bothers you don't upload above 1024 or add a watermark to your best ones.
It's not difficult to get around the flickr download block.
 
Thanks guys I was ignorant to the fact!
 
Brazo said:
Thanks guys I might just suck it up then and ensure future uploads are kept to a smaller size. I currently use light rooms sync feature with Flickr which is very handy and great way to organise. It would appear that my cityscape shots that get explored are targeted the most.

On one of these sites someone has posted it as there own work and thanked someone for commenting on it!!!!

This is one example, there are plenty more!
http://www.goodfon.com/wallpaper/london-the-shard-england.html

My shot on Flickr

Standing Tall by Brazo76, on Flickr
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Smaller resolutions may help but don't forget that there is a huge market for mobile devices that get away with using smaller resolutions too,
 
Two of the requests made, so far, have been replied with acknowledgment that the image has been removed – which seems to be the case – and within 20 minutes of sending the email.
So they were pretty prompt.
Link to this thread was included too.
If you need any help, Mark, PM me and I'll bring you up to speed.
 
Thank you PJS, if you have been emailing these companies on my behalf that's very kind of you, I'll see if I can do a few more later tonight!
 
The second needed a reminder to remove the image, not the link on their site, but it's now gone.
Neither lgwall...free nor phonfun seem to care enough to comply with the requests.

If you need their details to approach them yourself, just say, and I'll send you them by PM.
 
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