taxi4ballet Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Does anyone know anything about this subject please? DD took a photo, it has been liked and shared on FB rather a lot and has gone a bit viral (which she is thrilled about as it is rather good), and we're wondering whether we need to do anything so that people know that the image belongs to her. Any help/advice would be much appreciated, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Is it worth asking John Ross who posts his photos on the performance seen thread? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 It may be too late for the one that has gone viral but I think a lot of professional photographers have a "watermark" on their online photographs. Also when posting perhaps you could comment: photograph by xxxxx, can only be shared with permission. Terpsichore may be able to advise too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 I've noticed sometimes there is a little white tab across the bottom of some photos posted on Instagram for example if a BRB dancer posts a company taken picture on their personal feed. It has the name of person who took photo. Obviously can't find an example now I need one. And don't have Instagram so no idea if it is purely a function from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 (edited) Thanks, she just put it on her FB page among various others (as teenagers do) about 9 months ago. Dunno if she put it on Instagram as well. People 'liked' it and it's just gone on from there. Probably not a lot we can do now then! Edited September 21, 2016 by taxi4ballet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 On Instagram you can enforce your copyright quite effectively. I took and posted some original pics of Genie Bouchard at Wimbledon, which then got pinched by a couple of fan sites without giving any credit - getting thousands of likes (and hence adding to the value of the site). When they didn't respond to a request for a credit, I was able very quickly to report it to Instagram, who deleted the pics from their accounts and sent them a warning. On the next pic I posted, I added some text (needs to be somewhere where they can't crop it or photoshop it out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Thanks Quintus, she's actually delighted by who it has been picked up by (a well-known international ballet blogging site), and I will check whether she put it on Instagram or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Yes, it's flattering - just annoying when people don't name check the originator so they get the credit for their work. I know Gene Schiavone gets very hot under the collar about this, both on FB and Instagram (indeed on the latter at one point someone had set up a fake account in Gene's name full of his photos, and it was getting more likes than his real account!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 (edited) I suspect they didn't credit it (they do usually) because they didn't know where the image originally came from, as it has been doing the FB rounds for months and been liked and shared by other people. Edited September 22, 2016 by taxi4ballet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonrothbart Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 I used to be a keen photographer a few years ago, and seem to remember if I happened to get a saver, I would register it just in case. This would prevent anyone from using it without my permission. If I was working for someone else, as I did from time to time, then they would own the copywrite. I reckon it would be nigh on impossible to stop anyone using a pic without a copywrite on it so to speak, as they could just say they took the photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 It was just a snap of her and her pals that she took on her phone and then put on FB She's not into photography, it's a complete fluke... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonrothbart Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 It was just a snap of her and her pals that she took on her phone and then put on FB She's not into photography, it's a complete fluke... The quality of some mobile phone cameras nowadays is amazing, easily capable of taking money shots. I think I would just smile to myself knowing " I took that shot" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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