Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am not surprised. When I look at the "most popular" of my photos on Smugmug (greatpix.eu) there is also a semi-naked model walking around at the 2006 Photokina among the favourites. But if you think your images on Flickr are being used commercially you should at least send a lawyerly-sounding mail to the offender. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Jan 29, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Peter Cheyne wrote: > I looked up my most viewed and most 'favourited' image on Flickr, and, no > surprises, it was of a pretty Japanese tattooed lady in bikini on the > beach. > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/220004103/#/photos/geordiepete/220004103/lightbox/> > > I think other LUGgers have found similar results with their photos. > > Most of the views came from outside Flickr, and were directed by tattoo > websites. I'm not *too* bothered that permission to link to my photos > wasn't asked, because I don't have any delusions about being a good > photographer. However, it got me thinking, it would be useful for every > image to have an embedded code so that photographers and illustrators > could track the use of their images online. Some kind of invisible > watermark that can be traced by a Google search. Does such a thing exist? > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >