Rutra - I was about to reply in a similar fashion.

You just can't post a picture on the internet and expect total control over it. You can safely assume that, whatever you post online can someday be copied and used without your consent.

I have embraced that and placed all my work so far online with a Creative Commons license. My images are free to use by anyone as long as they don't do commercial work with them and respect credits about their origin. That's the theory.

In practice, I know full well that people can sell my images (good luck for that with the quality I posted them in). I know they can use them and claim they are the owners (if it comes to a verification, I have the 'sources' of these images... I know they don't).

At the same time, I had people as for permission to use some of these images. I even found some used without my permission and complying with the terms of my CC license. That was a good feeling to find they were useful to someone.

I know I can afford this attitude - I am not trying to make a living out of my images. If I do someday, I will make sure to only post online small reproductions or just not post commercial work at all.

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