The ultimate guide to protecting your images on the Internet and tracking down image thieves!
A real scourge for photographers, the theft and reuse of their images on the Internet have become commonplace over the years.
As generative artificial intelligence reshuffles the cards of organized theft, offering the world plagiarized versions of our photographs, let’s take a look at how we can combat human monopolization.
This comprehensive multi-part tutorial has been concocted using the web expertise of the A Kom Z design studio, combined with that of our Lyon-based photo studio and its photographer.
- In the first part, you’ll find basic advice on how to take action on your images, before learning more or less well-known web developer techniques to protect yourself from image theft on the Internet.
- In the second part, we’ll get to the heart of the matter with feedback from our studio photographer, and then teach you how to track down fraudulent uses of your images online.
- In a third section, we deal with a related subject, plagiarism of architectural photographs.
- In a fourth section, we look at the robust and invisible tattooing of photographs published online.
Preamble
Let’s be under no illusions: from the moment a photograph is published on the Internet or on a social network, whatever the level of protection in place, it is always possible to copy it, at least as it appears on the screen.
Although our photographs are, in theory, protected by copyright, too many Internet users ignore this fact or think they can act with impunity.
In this dossier, you’ll find tried-and-tested solutions to deter some and catch a few others!
