When I was Googling images for “youth tennis” yesterday to get some ideas on how to take better pictures, I noticed that one of my pictures stored in Flickr under my own account is being used by somebody else without my permission.
That picture was taken by myself in an event called IA Drake/Ames Tennis Academy Winter Invitational is Des Moines, IA back in November of 2009. I originally stored that picture in Flickr which I was a “pro” member (meaning I paid the annual fee to have my pictures stored in Flickr:
I had set the license to “All Rights Reserved” instead of granting people the right to use my work without asking. I’m surprised to see that whoever put my work in their website without asking could just take it under Flickr’s nose.
I emailed Yahoo’s Copyright/IP Policy department yesterday, to better understand how anybody could take my picture from Flickr. I tried to do the same thing. I looked for a different picture with the same license setting (All Rights Reserved), but when I right clicked on that picture, it will not let me copy/save it. Instead it shows “This photo is © All Rights Reserved”. So how did they get mine?
This morning, I contacted the “Tennis & Racquet Sports” website owner who published my picture. I could not find any email address so I left a message on their ‘Contact’ page; hoping it will reach the person who is responsible for the site. I introduced myself as the owner othe work, that I’m fine for them to use my work but they’d have to mention me for the work that I have done. Also, to ask if they could ask permission first before using anybody’s work. Especially when it’s clearly copyrighted.
We’ll see who is going to respond first…
Thats pretty messed up for someone to do that. Its a little to easy to grab any pic you want off the net. If they didn’t download it they probably used the ctrl+C+Print Scr to snag. No way to avoid that unfortunately. I would hope that they would follow up with you to give you credit. Best of luck.
Thank you 🙂
Diny,
I hope they have enough courtesy to acknowledge they have used your picture without permission. This is the reason why I constantly put my name on all of my pics although this won’t guarantee that people won’t use them without asking me first.
I did put my name on it. If you click on the picture, you’d see my “Diny Patterson © 2009” signature. But did it stop them? Nooooo.
Diny, yep most likely they captured it by print screen. Hope the owner would respond to you ASAP. The best bet would be to store a low resolution photos because even watermarks doesn’t help these people who steals. Good luck Diny!
Is that right? Wow! Even watermarks won’t help? Geez louise!
Apparently it is next to impossible to protect one’s ( intellectual) property. That’s may be the sad part of the anarchistic ideal internet once was.
But of course the Flick gang owe you some serious explanation.
Tighten up your security!! Ha ha ha…
It’s definitely the print-screen mbak. I think one of the reasons why I post photos with my name on it is to avoid this thing. Even so, I knew people could erase/cut the text part.
Anyhow, hope you get this solved soon mbak dini
I did put my name on my picture, though. Maybe not big enough. Thank you, q!
Hi Diny,
Another easy way on Flikr is just look at the HTML (right click “Inspect Element” in Chrome – for example) a direct URL is there for you to save the image directly.
Nice photo BTW.
Good to know. Thanks!
sweetheart … really, this one remind me to the same, identical case i’d face again and again, on and on. and even a national bank did the same and put *copyrighted* onto my picture. can we join thai boxing class to handle this? since manner and etiquette seems doesn’t work. anyway, in flickr i’d got same experience, someone took my picture in karimunjawa and e-mail me afterward. my reply just easy peasy to be understood “do not use mine for fishing in advertorial section” and you know what? he insisted “i do not dadeedadeeda” but look, he puts within section mentioned “fancy touring karimunjawa w/ our service?” do i stupid or he’s too smart to hide something that can be seen clearly? *sigh* in javanese language i can say “maling kok luwih galak, to?”
Well, I stored my pics with Flickr because I thought it will be safe. Thai boxing class? Let’s go 🙂
In your case, how long did it take until somebody replied to your email?
Thank you for your support. Piye kabare si Mas?
if you say this 8 years ago, i will agree 100% with yours for flickr. but now? >> :p even for my tabblo. kindly check it out at tjabe merah dot com lombok, a backpacker hostel. what the hell is that about sunset over senggigi? absolutely mine! and nothing reply for 3 years. as for kompas newspaper, written as “mistakenly written accreditation” heck! wrong sentences. i deserved better words for this misbehave. others? nothing ’till today. so? back to etiquette and manner, din. seems they don’t have. try to forget, but of course never be forgiven. wait until they get the same case, so they’ll know what it’s feel. come on, thai boxing class for sure! you’re most welcome. nick and i just great, we’re awaiting new replacements in frankfurt am main and of course jakarta!
I kindly give some rights to use my picture to one particular person. Just ask, right Din? Hope you will get reply from one of them. You will be amazed on how easy people “copy paste” many things. I am sure, many picture in printed adv around here are taken without permission from the owner as well.
Exactlt. Just ask. Like the other two instances; I don’t care about fee, I okayed them for free.