Forum: Photography


Subject: TinEye image search engine.

inshaala opened this issue on May 21, 2008 · 26 posts


NightGallery posted Sat, 24 May 2008 at 7:25 PM

I translated most of the pages. I don't see anything on there for "purchase", etc.

I agree about the infringement. I don't dig it either. I could write them and try to get through to them in English and see what if anything they will do about it. Sometimes that just becomes more stress then it's worth.

I have had this issue a lot in the past. I used to have a website for all my FREE NHL desktop wallpapers. I had the site for 4-5 years. I had to eventually close it due to people printing my work out and selling them on ebay as "One of a kind" NHL images.  Ebay gave me NO help after repeated attempts to contact them, I had to write the guy about 5 times before he removed my stuff. He never did reply to me. Found another on ebay Russia doing the same thing.

It sucks but its back to that balance. Either leave images up on the www for people to see and hope they don't get stolen, or compromise the look of the image with a HUGE watermark.  I think we all are between a rock and a hard place with this stuff. I don't know the answers to it either.

Besides all that, I don't have the $ to hire a lawyer, or deal with people outside the USA.... Its all a big mess.
-B