PhillipAnthony
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Crappy title, I know, but nothing else meaningful came to mind.
You know, I am positively humbled every time I see drop, dead gorgeous images posted by incredibly talented photographers who post their digital gems within this forum for all to see and enjoy. Speaking as a web developer, image theft drives me absolutely nuts, but the bottom line is that if someone really wants to grab an image that he has no title to he can do so with no reprecussion at all. That sucks. Big time.
There are ways to overlay a clear PNG and that helps prevent theft if the perp is not too savvy. IMHO, there is just no bona-fide way to prevent image theft. And, yet, all the FM uploader's (myself included) do so without giving this a second thought.
Yesterday I came across Tony Markle's INCREDIBLE hummingbird images in this forum. This led me to his forum where each and every image that I saw was watermarked. His images in this forum were not. I found that remarkable in that I think he is saying that he trusts everyone in fm.com and not anyone who visits his website. I understand that. Perfectly.
Speaking only for myself, I never have a second thought when I upload an image within these forums. Nor do I ever concern myself that someone might rip off one of my images. Today this struck me like a brick and all I could think of was - Wow!! I am not a behavioral scientist, but I think this is really amazing if you think about it a minute.
When I used to have a lot of my work on one of my website's they were all watermarked. One day some lady ripped me a new one for watermarking all of my images. I can still visualize her yelling at me, "You are totally obscuring the image which makes me not want to purchase it. Do you think we are all theives?" Now, she was either very sincere or she was a sly fox trying to force me to remove the watermarking so she could rip off some images. I have no idea where the truth really laid in that matter. I left the watermarking as it was.
There are some image theft 'tools' that may or may not work. Some of these are DIGIMARC, TinEye and AdvancedPhotoTools.
https://www.digimarc.com/application/copyright
https://www.tineye.com
http://www.adptools.com
I have no experience with any of these, but was told that some lady sued (and won) someone who ripped off her images and now lives quite comfortably from her use of Tineye to catch the perp. Whether that story is true or not I have no idea.
Bottom line: Fred has built an amazing forum for all of us to enjoy and be a positive part of and somehow we instinctly know that trust is what binds us together. I feel truly blessed to be a part of this fantastic community.
While my words may sound a bit corny, I meant each and every thing that I wrote.
Phillip Anthony
P.S. I was not quite sure where to post this thread, so hope it will be okay here.
Edited on Apr 01, 2016 at 10:49 AM · View previous versions
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