Reverse Image Search - a tool in the fight against copyright infringement
robkelk
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Apparently, there's yet another site out there that lets people upload other people's artwork and take credit for it. Since I don't have any proof, I won't name the site here.
What I will do is point out a new-to-me search engine - TinEye Reverse Image Search - that's optimized for finding copies of images. You provide an image or the URL of an image, and it'll go find other copies of the image on the web. I'm told that resizings and watermarkings don't fool TinEye.
Find your work and send out those DMCA takedown notices. folks...
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That site's been around for quite some time. I have a Chrome addon that added the search to mouse right click. Right click on any image > search on tineye. Makes things easy.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/tineye
and one for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tineye-reverse-image-search/?src=search
Sites like that along with tubers, taggers and idiots who think taking a render and adding sparkles to it somehow makes it "theirs" is the reason I gave up on galleries ages ago. I found I was spending more time hunting them down, trying to get the ISP to shut them down, sending C and D's and takedowns than doing anything else. Wasn't worth it.
Sites like that along with tubers, taggers and idiots who think taking a render and adding sparkles to it somehow makes it "theirs" is the reason I gave up on galleries ages ago. I found I was spending more time hunting them down, trying to get the ISP to shut them down, sending C and D's and takedowns than doing anything else. Wasn't worth it.
Tineye isn't a gallery, it's a web search similar to Google Image Search except you can search for a specific image rather than by keywords. Tineye doesn't take anything- they search the web finding all of the images that match your search so you can find all of the sites who did take an image.
Tineye isn't a gallery, it's a web search similar to Google Image Search except you can search for a specific image rather than by keywords. Tineye doesn't take anything- they search the web finding all of the images that match your search so you can find all of the sites who did take an image.
I know Tineye doesn't. My comment was about the offending site that is allowing copyrighted images to be uploaded to it and claimed by others. Sites like the one mentioned by the OP and others are why many just don't even bother with galleries.
Despite the fact that Tineye may find the sites, you still have to go through the process of sending C and D's and takedown notices. It still a time consuming process.
Tineye isn't a gallery, it's a web search similar to Google Image Search except you can search for a specific image rather than by keywords. Tineye doesn't take anything- they search the web finding all of the images that match your search so you can find all of the sites who did take an image.
I know Tineye doesn't. My comment was about the offending site that is allowing copyrighted images to be uploaded to it and claimed by others. Sites like the one mentioned by the OP and others are why many just don't even bother with galleries.
Despite the fact that Tineye may find the sites, you still have to go through the process of sending C and D's and takedown notices. It still a time consuming process.
I see what you're saying, I had to re-read it. I didn't know there was a 'new site' is which is why it didn't click the first time I read it.
I have a question for those who have used tineye - Have you ever found any instances of your images with it? I'd never even heard of it until this post so out of curiosity I thought I'd try it. I posted the links to a couple of images and, as expected, it said "0 results". Then I tried an image of mine that I know is on a lot of sites (an image from a game I made) and I still got "0 results". There are a lot of screenshots of that same game floating around so I went to a couple of the sites that have them and directed tineye to those images (knowing that those same screenshots are used on a lot of sites and have been up for a couple of years), still "0 results". So I'm just wondering what kind of results others have had with it.
None of my own no, but I've used it numerous times when I see what I know is a theft on Deviantart but can't remember who did the original. I'll use it to find the original.
Hey Megon, you could also give Plaghunter a try and may get more than 0 results: http://www.plaghunter.com
It's based on Googles Reverse Image Algorithm, regulary checks all your image and gives you a report where your images are being used online..
Thanks for the additional links. The more tools we have access to, the more of this sort of rudeness we can catch.