Wednesday, August 11, 2010

More of my photos used in forums, embedded in posts, without attribution... sigh...

Thanks to the new referrer stats in Smugmug, I can actually see when my photos are being embedded in posts, or web pages, without other attribution.  I can't do anything about it, but I guess I can at least mention it, and gripe.

Previously, thanks to the new Smugmug referred stats, I identified some examples of my photos being embedded in posts in forums, without any attribution: http://blog.canghuixu.com/2010/06/big-improvement-in-smugmug-stats.html

Here is another of my pictures, embedded in a post in some forum in the Netherlands, unfortunately without any attribution...

http://forum.fok.nl/topic/883179/12/25#40428418

Here is the original in my gallery...


I can't read Dutch so have no idea what the post is about.  I'm flattered that anyone liked one of my pictures enough to embed it in a gallery, but I really would be grateful if they would actually mention in their post where they got the photo, if only because that might boost my search engine rankings.  I don't really expect to get any money out of this, but some recognition would be nice...

In this post, in a thread that I don't completely understand, the second photo is mine...


Here is the original for picture #2, in its gallery...


It wouldn't cost any of these people a penny to credit my photo and add a link to my gallery and say something nice about it, but oh well.  I know I can block embedding of my photos, but for the time being, I guess I would rather that someone saw them than no one saw them.  Maybe if anyone ever starts ordering prints, or buying licenses, then I'll tighten up...  Ah well...  If I wasn't so lazy I would probably write to these people and ask them to at least mention my site.  Maybe someday...


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