Thanks for providing the last link, Joel. Very helpful!
Because the original taker of one of my photos has seen removed it upon my request, I have lost the link to the more undesirable sites that took it from that person. I should have written them down but didn't. All it takes is one person snatching up your photo and it's off and running on numerous sites! From what I've seen so far, tumblr users are the worst for this!
I have learned that posting a photo on flickr, puts it up for free grabs, no matter what the flickr site states about copyrights. Live and learn, now I just have to remember to put a logo on all my photos before posting.
As a test, I had my daughter log into flickr and she freely downloaded many of my photos and printed them. I had no way of knowing this or tracking it. I was able to track many of the photos that were taken and posted elsewhere online though.
Here is how ...
Go to your homepage and click on "Your Stats" to the left of "Upload Photo and Video"
Toward the bottom of the page, right above "Breakdown of your photos and videos", it lists the domain names of places people linked into your flickr site from. Which means they saw a photo of yours on that site, clicked on the photo and was brought to your flickr account. This will only bring you to the first person that used your photo. If it was taken by someone on "tumblr" you have to follow the links on that persons blog to follow the trail of others that took it from them.
flickr.com 184 64% community.the-digital-picture.com 10 3% api.twitter.com 2 <1% flickrhivemind.net 2 <1% google.com 2 <1% t.co 1 <1% photographyblogger.net 1 <1% flickrforbusypeople.appspot.com 1 <1% earth-songs.tumblr.com 1 <1% flickriver.com 1 <1%
Sometimes the viewers are ok and just viewing your photos, which is great but you need to click on some of the domain links to see if your photo is on their website or blog. earth-songs.tumblr.com had my photo but has since taken it down upon my request and has also posted this on her blog "Not my photos. Photographer source given in most. If there is a photo of yours that is being used illegally, please message me and it will be removed." Others that reblogged it from that person still have it and I can't find them now. Photographyblogger is fine because I posted my photo in their group on flickr and they used it in their thread for top tulip photos. Popular Photography magazine used many of my photos for "Photo of the Day" and I didn't know it until I followed their link thru my stats. Which I was thrilled once I saw it but would never have known otherwise.
FYI - Some of the links may just send you in a circle back to your flickr photo. I don't know what that is all about.
I hope this info helps others from falling victim to photo theft!
Denise
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