Andy Burns wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Now supposing you find a web site, which contains some photographs,
photographs which you are fairly certain will have been lifted from
another website - is there any way to search the internet, to find
where the phograhphs might have been stolen from?

Well, TinEye and Google both have reverse image search, they won't
necessarily tell you which is the original source, but they'll tell
you which sources are similar or identical.

That could be a bit of a bugger when looking through the photos on the
readers wives section of Fiesta and Razzle. How good is this software?

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Adam

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 6:55:55 AM UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
If they were in the public domain with zero actual copyrighting or
anything then arguable tough ****.

They haven't been stolen because no ownership was ever asserted.

In the UK you don't have to assert copyright, it's automatic.

In the UK, and in all other countries which are signatories to the
Berne convention. That has included the USA for more than 20 years
now.

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 3:27:57 PM UTC+1, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

I uploaded some of my photos to wikipedia for an article.

Within a day, they were flagged as stolen, so I investigated, and

they had found them on a website (albeit a different size/resolution).

I had to explain that was my website, and then they were OK with them.

I posted an old picture of an experimental/never-flew British helicopter on another site, in the hope someone could identify it. They did.

Shortly afterwards, a Wikipedia contributor had lifted the image and used it without asking, having made up a story that it had been taken by a serviceman (it hadn't) and so was in the public domain (it wasn't and isn't).

I complained, Wikipedia deleted it. If the **** had had the courtesy to ask, I'd have probably let him use it.

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:44:29 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

If they were in the public domain with zero actual copyrighting or
anything then arguable tough ****.

They haven't been stolen because no ownership was ever asserted.

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