How to Protect Your Photos Online

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With over 85% of images uploaded to the internet used without permission or license, image theft is a problem that affects all photographers. In this informative talk, Kain Jones aims to offer useful advice and solutions that every photographer can use to properly protect their photos online.

The workshop will cover all of the do’s and don’ts of posting your work online. Photographers will learn about common and best practices for image protection - including advice on techniques such as using watermarks, digital signatures, and active monitoring. Kain will also give tips on how to make photo ownership and usage terms known, as well as taking a look at what the future of online image protection holds.

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Pixsy is incorrect: At the approx. 47:30 mark of the video, the Pixsy representative states that you have two years from learning of the copyright infringement to pursue the infringer. It’s actually THREE-years! See Title 17 US § 507(b) (Limitations on actions): “Civil Actions—No civil action shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within THREE years [emphasis] after the claim accrued.”

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WATERMARKS Removal: Photographers and other creatives who choose not to timely register their copyrights, should, at the very least, affix their posted web & social media creative works with a watermark (LOGO), copyright attribution, metadata, licensing information, and other “Copyright Management Information” (CMI). US-based infringers who use Photoshop or another editing software to knowingly remove, change, or cover any CMI in order to hide their copyright infringements or to further induce infringements can be financially liable from $2, 500 to $25, 000 PLUS the photographer’s attorney fees PLUS legal costs, AND other remedies (at the court’s discretion).

The GREAT news here is that a timely registered copyright is NOT required to pursue CMI violators. See 17 USC §§ 1202-1203. Visit the following copyright attorney-authored links to learn more:



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If you use Pixsy to locate unlicensed uses of your photographs, you’ll likely have to use its services (and not your own attorney) to pursue infringers for settlement or litigation. If you have timely registered your photo copyright with the US Copyright Office, you should FIRST contact a copyright litigator (trial attorney) to discuss your legal options. Pixsy’s business model is to quickly settle with the infringer and move on to other infringements. Having your own copyright litigator will likely get you much more money damages.

Again, contact a copyright attorney first before using Pixsy services.

Higbee & Associates law firm also tracks copyright infringement and might be a substitute to Pixsy:

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Don’t be fooled: Blockchain and the Poor Man’s copyright are NOT substitutes to timely registering your photo copyright with the US Copyright Office.

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