Careful what you upload

I cringe a little when I see uploads here and elsewhere where people upload personal photos. Here's why:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8094420.stm

It's probably not that much of an issue here as I'm currently blocking bots from the images so they are not easily found in search engines however I will be changing that as they can drive a lot of traffic to a site. If you want to upload personal images I'd suggest using the private forum.

I'm going to be adding some automatic watermarking options so the images will get stamped however that is certainly no where near full proof. Something like: "Uploaded to nepacrossraods.com, Copyright "

I'll have to work out the last part, keep in mind when you create an image it's immediately copyrighted by yourself. By uploading it here you are only giving nepacrossroads.com a "soft license" to display it here.

You can batch matermark images yourself using Irfanview or Exifer.

Thanks Richard. Good Advice.

Just to add this is relatively benign example, it could be much worse how images you upload are used. At most the family used in this photo have lost some money that was due to them for use of the image.

WTF dont mean nothen, a picture is a picture, forget about it.

acesover wrote:WTF dont mean nothen, a picture is a picture, forget about it.

Well i gues it depends on your perspective but the business in question used the image without the permission or any compensation to the family. Again this relatively benign example, people do things to images much worse than this. There's a lot of perverts out there, would you want a picture of your kid being used by one these people for anything? Just to give another example suppose someone uses an image of your family for a joke and it turns into one of those instant over night sensations. It's funny unless you're the person in the image...

EXACTLY! Funny till it happens to you

Happened to me three years ago when I first posted a bunch of cool stuff I was doing in my boiler room.

Later - a guy posted a vid of the speech he was paid to deliver and -- humm guess what his visual aids included!!! :x



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