Pictures 'being stolen'
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Helping my wife with ecommerce site. Selling clothes. Some photos are given by producer, but at times they are not too good. Some are therefore taking their own photos and i suspect ppl are copying them and using them on their own site. Is there anyting to do about this - watermarking of course, but can they be 'marked' in anyway linking to your site ?
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Thanks, I will have to try it out as well.
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Google Images now has an option where you can upload a photo or point to a photo's URL and it will act like TinEye and do a search for that image. I haven't compared the two services with the same image so I can't speak for if one is more complete, but it is something else to try.
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Hi Dan,
There are a couple of simple ways you can deal with this problem. Basically all you need is the ability to edit a .htaccess file. So simple even I can do it!
Our head of programming wrote a blog post to explain both methods for you. Take a look here Don't Steal My Images!
Hope that helps,
Sha
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Besides watermarking I would upload the photo's to TInyEye. This will help you at least find out if people are using your images elsewhere plus helps show your ownership rights to the photos.
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