Ebay sellers using images of my Z

[jimmybell]

Sadly, the long story short is... don't put pics on the internet if you don't want them stolen.

Obviously i don't condone their use when it could theoretically take money away from a working photographer (though in this case i can't see someone paying for the picture if demanded to do so, they'd find another..). I'd be more bothered if this was one of your 'money shots' so to speak.

There is no way really to put photos on the web and prevent them being stolen. If someone can display them in their browser, then they're stealable. Hence, make them worthless by keeping web versions overly small, and watermarking them all over. Or accept they're going to be nicked.

The internet isn't really policed, and whilst it sucks in this situation, i really wouldn't want it to be either. If the seller removes from the ebay advert, there's nothing stopping him from hosting elsewhere and linking to it really.

I'm sure there's decent money to be made by creating some steal-proof system for displaying photos, but you'd be looking at driver-level technology.

 

[marypoppins]

Something similar has just happened to me. Changed my everyday car recently . Purely by chance i spotted an image of it on e bay, my reg advertising scrap door panels.
What a bloody cheek!!! I e mailed the scrap dealer and told him to remove it asap. He had uploaded the image from the dealers i bought it from. Took three
e mails before he did as i asked.

 

[tomscott]

Thing is its an ebay auction. Any res will do, doesn't matter what resolution you put up.

The "Don't put your images on the internet" is a stupid comment, 99% of work comes from online and putting a sig across the whole image is unrealistic as it doesn't sell the work. I would wonder how your friends in the 'biz' get work that way.

Like Jimmybell said its not too bad as its not commercial and my commercial work for client cars doesn't go up for this reason, if they found their car online in some ad then it will most probably have been taken from one of my outlets, which im not willing to allow.

 

[mr wilks]

Thing is its an ebay auction. Any res will do, doesn't matter what resolution you put up.

The "Don't put your images on the internet" is a stupid comment, 99% of work comes from online and putting a sig across the whole image is unrealistic as it doesn't sell the work. I would wonder how your friends in the 'biz' get work that way.

Like Jimmybell said its not too bad as its not commercial and my commercial work for client cars doesn't go up for this reason, if they found their car online in some ad then it will most probably have been taken from one of my outlets, which im not willing to allow.

Get over it Tom , its life mate , ,wish i could licence every door ive hung & take a £1 every time someone opens it :wink:

 

[jimmybell]

Get over it Tom , its life mate , ,wish i could licence every door ive hung & take a £1 every time someone opens it :wink:

Remind me not to hire you to hang my doors