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Do you know who's using your photos?
Filed under: Gadgets, That's Entertainment
In the last few years, there's been an explosion in the number of parents using blogs, social networking sites, and media sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube to connect with one another, and share their experiences.
For many of these parents, they find a more supportive community of like-minded moms and dads online than they have in their "real" lives. However, what's the cost? What happens when we allow the public access to our photos and private moments?
As many of you know, former ParentDish writer, J.D. Griffioen, has an enormously popular personal website called Sweet Juniper. Most read it for J.D. (aka Dutch) and his wife's (aka Wood) hysterical and moving stories about their lives as parents -- but the site is also popular for the amazing photographs the pair take of their adorable daughter, Juniper. Recently, however, they had one of those photographs stolen.
Babble, a for-profit, online parenting magazine run by Nerve Media. Inc, recently used a photo of Juniper without permission. Concerned that a corporation was using photos of his daughter without his consent, J.D. took action to have the photo removed, which he writes about first on his Flickr page, and then on his blog.
It might seem like a small infraction -- after all, the photo ran with a story about how to protect your kids from lead-based paint. However, what if the story had been about some of the less innocuous stories the site publishes? For instance, how would you feel if a photo of you and your child ran with a story about parents who smoke pot with their kids?
J.D., formerly a lawyer who routinely dealt in intellectual property litigation, gives some tips on how you can keep random people and corporations from using your photos here.
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9-27-2007 @ 4:35PM
sarah said...I work as an artist in the advertising department of a newspaper and to me the concept of just stealing a picture off of someone's page or blog on the internet is not only apalling, it's mind boggling! There are SO MANY stock photo sites out there and a lot of them are relatively inexpensive.
Pony up a few dollars and license a picture fair and square, cheapskate online magazine! :-p If you can't afford a stock photo, then take your own.. at least that's how the art department I work in rolls. Stealing pics... so not a good thing.
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9-27-2007 @ 4:41PM
LS said...I read about this same problem at RockStarMommy's blog this morning - she's had four pics stolen in the recent past. Amazing.
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9-28-2007 @ 11:28AM
caitlin said...I've noticed a few people hotlinking to my images, and I've found a great way to stop that. I do selective hotlinking in my .htaccess file. Anyone who wants to hotlink my images in their blog gets to feel my wrath in the form of goatse guy or tubgirl popping up where they were expecting cute kid pictures.
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