Deep linking, as I've found out, is the practice of linking to an image on a website through a blog or elsewhere. I was looking through my site hits and referring pages yesterday and there was a large amount of hits from various livejournal users...trying to browse through them all, I couldn't find a link, so I went through my recent users, and there I found the one blog that had one of my images on it! The guy posting it had written a blog entry, and then had about 4 images following, in this case, mine was the one from my amusement park series of the old ride through a fence.
This brings up some concerns about security of images on the web. Its bad enough that every friggin image on my site is indexed by google. At the top of most of my gallery pages, I have the following: All images © protected under Copyright laws- Please do not reproduce in any form, digital or print, without permission. Now, I don't have any images that are much bigger than 500 pixels, so the printing or stealing in a hard form isn't that likely, but I would like to have my images floating around only with permission and with a by line or link to the site.
I emailed the livejournal user by contacting him through myspace, and it appears he removed it from the blog. I don't know what bothers me more here, the picture being used and seen without permission, which could happen a lot, or the fact that I found it because he was essentially using my hosting space and bandwidth as part of his blog...
anyone else experience this type of thing? What if I started to put watermarks on photos?Wouldd it ruin the feel?
2 comments:
it's amazing what some people will do to try and pass off images taken by other people as their own. it happens so much, but i figure that i'm the one with the negative or file that's large enough to make a quality print from... so that's the most important thing. good that you caught this one and that he took your image down. the worst part of it all is if someone tries to promote something or profit off of your hard work without your consent!
oh, and you forgot my blog in your previous post! i just started it though, so you're forgiven!
I agree with Erin about being the one with the negative. My dad and I were recently talking about this. I mean, there's little stopping someone from printing off one of my photos from online. But they aren't going to get a quality image...and I doubt that I would be loosing a potential sale.
Stealing your bandwith is another issue. Tracy Lee had an interesting post about a year ago...if you realized someone was deeplinking, it would be fun to mess with them.
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