stolen images

An interesting Question (and answer) in Amateur Photography this week.

Someone apparently was at a loose end so used his search engine and found two other parties using his images on their websites. The question and answer were both about how to proceed.

My question is much more basic - How on earth does one use Yahoo/Google or whatever to do a search in the first place. What question would one set up to get useful answers?

One would probably just use Google Revers Image Search, or TinEye.

How? Presumably the original image name will have been removed.

Those links make a search based on image input. You upload your pic, it searches for similar pics online. It's not word based.

I have posted images online, use tineye and it said that it couldn't find any images like it. I posted it on multiple forums and Facebook, so I don't know if I trust it at all.

Open a new tab with google. Click on images. Then open another tab with the pic you'd like to search for. Drag it to the google images tab. You will see the places the picture is.

Here is an example from my picasa folder:

How about google's image search? I do find it a bit more far-fetching than tineye... But I guess neither is the perfect solution; if they somehow can't index a web page, there won't be much they can do.

Goole Images has found a couple of my images that were being used on line by others. One portrait/wedding guy in California had one of my portraits on his website indicating that it was his and it was part of his style and he was also selling it from his website.

I have a very good friend (been friends for years) thats a pretty high powered corporate attorney here and he sent the guy a registered letter. That did the trick for that one.

Google Image does a decent job of finding things.

So it has to done one image at a time? I've got a lot of images on my zenfolio site, so searching would consume a lot of time.

Lowner wrote in post #16281501
So it has to done one image at a time? I've got a lot of images on my zenfolio site, so searching would consume a lot of time.

Yeah one image at a time.

Lowner wrote in post #16281501
So it has to done one image at a time? I've got a lot of images on my zenfolio site, so searching would consume a lot of time.

That is my biggest problem to. I blog 40-100 pics from a football game, which is what is primarily ripped off. If I shoot 12 games a year, that could be 1200 pics I need to search EVERY YEAR.

Thomas Campbell wrote in post #16281509
That is my biggest problem to. I blog 40-100 pics from a football game, which is what is primarily ripped off. If I shoot 12 games a year, that could be 1200 pics I need to search EVERY YEAR.

That # would almost call for a watermark in the middle of the pic.

NewCreation wrote in post #16281532
That # would almost call for a watermark in the middle of the pic.

That would keep people from stealing it. If no one steals it, I can't score huge settlements.

Thomas Campbell wrote in post #16281509
That is my biggest problem to. I blog 40-100 pics from a football game, which is what is primarily ripped off. If I shoot 12 games a year, that could be 1200 pics I need to search EVERY YEAR.

Find some way to automate it, given 30 secs per image your 1200 images might only take 600 mins, a process which could be complete overnight. Shell scripting perhaps?

Well, there is a solution for your worries folks.
It is called Picscout. Register with them, pay them fees, and they`ll take care of your problems.
Imagerights is doing the same thing.
Meself is not affiliated with any of them