- In Google Images, click on the camera icon in the search box and either upload your photograph or link to a URL that points to it, and Google will attempt to find matches. It's actually very good at doing this, so a good place to start.
- Reverse image search engines are another option. Try TinEye at https://www.tineye.com/ or multi-service images search at http://www.iqdb.org/ or Yandex at http://images.yandex (in Russian but easy to work out). There is also a Firefox add-on 'Who stole my pictures' at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/who-stole-my-pictures/ which is excellent.
I was always making notes on scraps of paper about tips and facts I'd read in books and magazines, seen on the Internet or on TV. So this is my paperless filing system for all those bits of information I want to access easily. (Please note: I live in the UK, so any financial or legal information relates only to the UK.)
Monday, 3 August 2015
Online Photograph Theft
Some people think (wrongly) that any image available on the Internet is fair game to be taken and used without permission and graphics packages can be used to remove watermarks. If you want to check if any of your photographs haven't been used by other people, try the following.
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