Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Digimarc can do it, but it's very expensive. Someday, you'll be able to use Tineye. You can install it free and right click on any photo and Tineye will search the web for usage. It does a pretty good job but is in beta now only covers a small percentage of the web so far. Many stock photographers use it to find stolen usage. http://www.tineye.com/ Tina On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>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 > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com