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TinEye & finding image theft
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The TinEye plugin for Firefox is actually pretty damn impressive. I know a few years ago I looked at using Steganography to embed copyright into your image, which then makes it easier for the owner to work out if it has been used elsewhere. It seems that TinEye have taken a similar approach, which allows for us to find the sods who think it’s ok to use our toys without paying.
Give it a whirl, you might be surprised*
*not being paid by them
Turns out even more sods have approached the five-finger method.
http://text.hmmm.co.za/2008/11/image-theft.html
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Thanks for posting this. Within a couple minutes I found a travel company that lifted at least 4 photos of mine. I love these guys, statutory damages brings in much more $$ than if they had bought a license…
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You have to laugh at some of the responses I am getting
“we have using that picture for promoting ‘War Photographer’ movie , this is “fair use” for the spanish law."
So using, modifying and promoting someone other work with my image is all “fair use” under Spanish law.
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I know, I know-it’s cobblers isn’t it. Unfortunately the bastards realise that the time, effort and money to prosecute them under INTERNATIONAL copyright law means it’s unlikely that an individual photographer will bother to go down that road.
Some bugger has even stolen one of my photos then put their own script across it. The chances of winning any copyright theft case where the perpetrator is in Russia and I’m in the UK are pretty much zero though :-(
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Sorry to bump the post, but does anyone know any real person at PopPhoto?
Seems all e-mail to editor@popphoto.com is ignored.
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Tinyeye is great, I hope they can grow into a full business – I’d pay for that service.
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Yes I agree
I was already asking my self a few years ago why a program like that wasn’t just included in google.
Now it is tineye…perfect!
But they are not reading meta data…I was kind of interested in that too.
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using macbook pro & firefox. when i try to get the tineye plug-in, it downloads “tineye_image_search-0.4.xpi” to the desktop but nothing appears to be installedand it doesn’t open with any applications i have. any idea what i’m doing wrong?
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same here, on my former computer i did not have this problem,
i guess we are not doing anything wrong, but something is missing in the computer to make this run properly.
actually when downloaded, a window opens and ask with what application i want to open it.
this means my computer need ‘something’ to open it.
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go to file, open file and select where you downloaded it and then it should kick in the import process.
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If you drag & drop the .xpi file on to the open firefox window then it should open the file.
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gracias, yolanda- that did it!
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John Watts-Robertson:Heres another….. http://www.ingatlanmagazin.com/read/1447 (poker player)
Again lifted complete with my copyright logo…… ingatlan magazine-anyone heard of them?
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Hi John,
This Hungarian website is engage with immovable estate. As I see.
The publisher: Arkon Zrt
Address: 1135 Hungary, Budapest, Csata street. 8.
Phone: +36 1 237-2060
Fax: +36 1 237-2069
Editor in Chief: Jamrik Levente
email: jamrik.levente@ingatlan.com
If you need any help I try to help you.
Cheers
Gyula
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Many thanks Gyula-I’m off out now but will PM you on my return-and obviously keep other LS’er’s informed as to the outcome!
Do other photogs send an invoice for unauthorised useage or just ask for removal of the stolen image?
Best wishes,
JR.
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John, I wish I could even get some of them to respond, it seems the bigger the site, the more you have to struggle to get contact. I have yet to hear from PopPhoto’s editors, and i’ve sent e-mails and phone calls. The next step is to get a DMCA against them, as they don’t seem to respond well.
Honestly makes you wonder if there is any point in trying.
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I’ve now issued a DMCA against PopPhoto.com, not sure how their domain admit will act, but all attempts at contacting the editor have been met with total silence from PopPhoto and the image is still there.
four letter words can be used to describe them at this point
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This is an amazing tool! although it’s not working very well fr me, i tested it against a couple of pictures i know for a fact were stolen by some website and it found 0 results.
But i almost wish i didn’t know who else steals my photos…
Thanks for the link Daniel.
G.
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Daniel, don’t suppose you registered the photo with the copyright office? If so, it shouldn’t be too hard to get a copyright lawyer to work on a contingency basis, esp against an American company with decent pockets.
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The thieves need to be shocked in order to extract money from them. We need to send a copy of the image stolen on the website side by side with the one you have to demonstrate the theft. I sent my invoice to three persons related by slow mail earlier this year to an Austrian church organization involved with this theft. Two replied me by e-mail. One of them was a webmaster for the church, and he eventually paid my PayPal invoice probably from his own fund as it was only 60 Euros.
I have not tried TinEye yet.
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Tommy, afraid not, i guess this could be my downfall. Out of interest, does everyone do this with every image they place online?
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If your stolen image has/had a your watermark on when stolen (quite often they would remove it to put it on the Web), at least you have a point without the registration. It is possible to send a printed composite image of two images, one used by a thief and one on your site by slow mail. (it is better be a slow mail rather than e-mail which can get trashed, but they are more likely to respond by e-mail).
Daniel, don`t give up just because you have not registered your image with the US Copyright Office. I have gotten money from an American campany who used my watermarked image for a commercial purpose. Now the stolen image has been registered with the US Copyright Office, but I did not realize that I have a case without the registration owing to my Japanese citizenship. There is an international treaty, but each country has its own copyright law. In the US, you get less of protection unless you register your image. In Japan the copyright of a photograph or other intellectual property is created the minute it is finished and they do not require registration.
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Yes, this is a fantastic tool but as others have noted it is not at 100% yet. I searched several photos of mine that are legally posted on websites and it did not find any of them. They claim themselves that they are not up to speed yet as their program has a lot more web crawling to do. Eventually this will be a great resource.
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Alex,
There is domain name info at whois.domaintools.com.
There is info on the Chinese domain site where your photo(s) are being used.
http://whois.domaintools.com/shxb.net
Make a copy of the images along side by side with your own image and send that along with your invoice to the administrator of the domain by snail mail.
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Thank you Tomoko, you are super :) !! Hope all is well.
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Hi Alex, you are welcome. While I was grounded on Monday, I am well enough and hope to be really heading to Tokyo on Sunday.
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Oh man! Sorry to hear of this… but thanks for reference to TinEye. Going to try it out… though, I’m not sure I want to know. ;-)
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