Comments on: Stop stealing my sh*t! http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/ Live your Art Wed, 16 May 2012 19:03:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: priya http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1327 priya Sun, 13 May 2012 07:12:14 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1327 i had a fear tat anyone can copy a photo from my facebook profile or facebook album. but i'm interested in adding that. can u please tell me the clear and easy way for protecting my photos.is there any software for that i had a fear tat anyone can copy a photo from my facebook profile or facebook album. but i’m interested in adding that. can u please tell me the clear and easy way for protecting my photos.is there any software for that

]]> By: Vinita http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1316 Vinita Sun, 06 May 2012 09:31:56 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1316 hi I was so happy when i found your solutions to my problem related to protecting the image through the various ways u have mentioned in your website. Shrink wrapping your images was very interesting. However the solution that you have given in the website can be used in a blog or on a website with the html codes. Please let me how i can use this shrink wrapping if i have to send a flyer image through an email to my prospects. I have spent a lot of time making this flyer and i really dont want it to be copied especially when i am not an expert in photoshop please help. thanks hi

I was so happy when i found your solutions to my problem related to protecting the image through the various ways u have mentioned in your website. Shrink wrapping your images was very interesting. However the solution that you have given in the website can be used in a blog or on a website with the html codes.

Please let me how i can use this shrink wrapping if i have to send a flyer image through an email to my prospects. I have spent a lot of time making this flyer and i really dont want it to be copied especially when i am not an expert in photoshop

please help. thanks

]]> By: kb http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1313 kb Fri, 04 May 2012 14:02:58 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1313 The thing is people seeing your work on other sites is what may have brought you to the attention of your customers in the first place and going viral is free advertising so people too protective of your work also works against you. The thing is people seeing your work on other sites is what may have brought you to the attention of your customers in the first place and going viral is free advertising so people too protective of your work also works against you.

]]> By: kb http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1312 kb Fri, 04 May 2012 14:00:30 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1312 Watermarks are probably the most effective. The shrink wrap my thwart some but no matter what you do there is always the print screen method and then just crop out the image. This does not download the original image so there is nothing you can do. Watermarks are probably the most effective. The shrink wrap my thwart some but no matter what you do there is always the print screen method and then just crop out the image. This does not download the original image so there is nothing you can do.

]]> By: jh http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1294 jh Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:29:19 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1294 the cloud is dangers it is not safe and it will never be safe that is the lie they are telling you so you will put your info in there to be stole it is not safe at all the cloud is dangers it is not safe and it will never be safe that is the lie they are telling you so you will put
your info in there to be stole it is not safe at all

]]> By: Erosu http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1266 Erosu Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:55:24 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1266 Sorry but I stole 2 out of 3 pictures you gave out because there is a back up if you can't right click or save image.It is "Print Screen" ha ha. Sorry but I stole 2 out of 3 pictures you gave out because there is a back up if you can’t right click or save image.It is “Print Screen” ha ha.

]]> By: Allan http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1247 Allan Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:06:59 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1247 Just do what I do, send them an invoice for unauthorized use. I usually hit them for £1300 per picture. They all try to fight, but by the time they recieve the invoice, they have already comitted the crime. They all pay up, sooner or later, especially when the legal papers/summons to small claims court land on their desk. Ive only had to go beforethe"beak" once, and he ruled in my favour. I also still make them pay, even if they remove the picture. They have already used it. Just do what I do, send them an invoice for unauthorized use. I usually hit them for £1300 per picture.

They all try to fight, but by the time they recieve the invoice, they have already comitted the crime. They all pay up, sooner or later, especially when the legal papers/summons to small claims court land on their desk.

Ive only had to go beforethe”beak” once, and he ruled in my favour.

I also still make them pay, even if they remove the picture. They have already used it.

]]> By: Charlie http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1246 Charlie Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:33:56 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1246 Hello Drew, this is my first visit to your site, and your info on fighting image robbery is excellent! Thanks for your efforts to do this. I usually put the copyright symbol next to my name/web site, and only put a small version of photos on the web display, so that it's practical use is not great for printing. I have not burned an image to a cd and tried to prevent copying the image, but wondering if you know if it is possible to for example, send someone who ordered a large image in .jpg on a cd, and have it protected to be not just copy protected, but also limits the number of times it can be used to print. So I am imagining the cd being brought to a print shop, and the person brings it up on the monitor to send it to print. It would be helpful if I could program an instruction that could set the number of times a print instruction could be used. Maybe there is software designed to do this. Thanks and best wishes! Hello Drew, this is my first visit to your site, and your info on fighting image robbery is excellent! Thanks for your efforts to do this. I usually put the copyright symbol next to my name/web site, and only put a small version of photos on the web display, so that it’s practical use is not great for printing.

I have not burned an image to a cd and tried to prevent copying the image, but wondering if you know if it is possible to for example, send someone who ordered a large image in .jpg on a cd, and have it protected to be not just copy protected, but also limits the number of times it can be used to print. So I am imagining the cd being brought to a print shop, and the person brings it up on the monitor to send it to print. It would be helpful if I could program an instruction that could set the number of times a print instruction could be used. Maybe there is software designed to do this.

Thanks and best wishes!

]]> By: Jimbe' http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1244 Jimbe' Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:16:57 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1244 Excellent point here, Gwenn...... I think the art , if its that well done and unique, speaks for its self. from the get-go. "Work that is so entirely original"~ No copy write infringement intended~ LoL like a Worhol or a Salvador Dali. Excellent point here, Gwenn…… I think the art , if its that well done and unique, speaks for its self. from the get-go.
“Work that is so entirely original”~ No copy write infringement intended~ LoL like a Worhol or a Salvador Dali.

]]> By: Lilin http://skinnyartist.com/stop-stealing-my-images/#comment-1239 Lilin Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:41:40 +0000 http://skinnyartist.com/?p=566#comment-1239 I sell jewelry online for many years. I remember years back before any of our manufacturers were able to supply us the jewelry photos. I photographed all my jewelry photos. To this day, I am still finding my photos were used by some other sellers. The sad thing is when I asked them to take the jewelry photos down because we own them (I actually copyrighted them, sent form to Washington DC and paid fee), they told me the jewelry supplier gave them the photos. Okay, that means my jewelry photos were used by the manufacturers and the sellers. There was one CZ jewelry seller who stole 80 plus of my photos and used in their newly built website a few years ago, later on I noticed they also stole the entire website layout from ice.com. This was a few years ago. We even hired a lawyer to tell them to remove our photos that they claimed they took those photos themselves. How could that be? I have all the originals and used Photoshop techniques on every one of these photos. How could they just lie to me? I should mention their name here but I am not one to hurt anyone and I do not want them to destroy my good personality. I used watermarks on my photos until all the jewelry suppliers were able to supply us the jewelry photo then I stopped photographing photos myself. Yes, anyone can edit a watermarked photo if one knows Photoshop. I like Shrink Wrapping Image method suggested above. I will give it a try for my next group of new jewelry. I sell jewelry online for many years. I remember years back before any of our manufacturers were able to supply us the jewelry photos. I photographed all my jewelry photos. To this day, I am still finding my photos were used by some other sellers. The sad thing is when I asked them to take the jewelry photos down because we own them (I actually copyrighted them, sent form to Washington DC and paid fee), they told me the jewelry supplier gave them the photos. Okay, that means my jewelry photos were used by the manufacturers and the sellers.

There was one CZ jewelry seller who stole 80 plus of my photos and used in their newly built website a few years ago, later on I noticed they also stole the entire website layout from ice.com. This was a few years ago. We even hired a lawyer to tell them to remove our photos that they claimed they took those photos themselves. How could that be? I have all the originals and used Photoshop techniques on every one of these photos. How could they just lie to me? I should mention their name here but I am not one to hurt anyone and I do not want them to destroy my good personality.

I used watermarks on my photos until all the jewelry suppliers were able to supply us the jewelry photo then I stopped photographing photos myself. Yes, anyone can edit a watermarked photo if one knows Photoshop. I like Shrink Wrapping Image method suggested above. I will give it a try for my next group of new jewelry.

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