Last year I found several sites using my maternity belly button ring photos. If they linked to Belly Charms, that was great. The ones that just “stole” my images are the ones that made me upset. That was an eye opener and since then I have been watermarking everything I use on my blog and Belly Charms website.
Last night it happened again. In my Google Alerts, there was one that caught my eye….lots of times these are just “articles” that stuff keywords and are totally useless. This one had a pregnancy belly button rings link..I clicked it and saw 3 photos on top. This was the last photo.
Mine! Mine! Mine! I made the pregnancy belly rings, I took the photo and it was on her post which directed to another pregnancy belly button ring site – I was pissed to say the least. So I left a comment on the post that said this:
Hi,
I am the owner of Belly Charms LLC and the image on the top right of the 3 crystal belly button rings is mine! I made these, I took the photo! If you want to use it, I would like for it to link to
http://www.bellycharms.com. If not, please remove my image from this site immediately. Thank you and I would appreciate a prompt reply.
I tried to be nice. I never expected a reply, but I saved the link. Well I was wrong. I just got this back.
Done.
Linked to you.
That is all it said. I checked and the image was now linked to BellyCharms.com. So who knows where she found my image, but I am glad to know it is now linking to me.
Have any of you ever experienced this? What was your outcome? Just curious.
It has not happened to me personally that I have found yet but I know people that have had it happen. One lady it happened to was the bigger person she never told anyone who was stealing the images but the other person went as far as reporting her to FB after getting Caught and even though she was the innocent victim because the other person had her fans make reports to she was the one that got kicked off FB it was so horrible she is an awesome vendor I bought tons of stuff from her she is so great. It was such a shame. Make sure you keep a record of anything that happens for your own benefit.
I think sometimes people just don't "get it." Just because you find something on a google image search, doesn't mean you can just use it!! I've been watermarking all of my photos!
Ok I am very new to Blogging but it seems like common sense to say where you got the content for your site.I know people don't use common sense anymore but come on people! If you didn't make it own up to it! It drives me crazy!
So how do you add a water mark on pictures?
So sorry this happened to you! Can't believe the person didn't even say sorry! I mean how hard is that? Its not like she has to look you in the eye or anything.
i think that's crap. she shouldn't have used your picture and made people think it was from a different site but when you said something she should've apologized instead of just saying "done"