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My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:38:16 GMT

I want to know how did my Picture get on there Website without my Knowledge? This picture was submit 11/27/16, I just saw this today.

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 20:20:02 GMT

WOW, no one can help me with this issue, you all are so good about helping but not with this. That is ok I already know that Canon has Copyrights which is not good at all, because this is my picture. When I click on the picture it shows who submit the picture. Canon Community and Lindam, Danny, Tiffany, Mykolas, Tim, Jason, Stephens and Samantha if this is what I signed up for is really Bad New, never thought my pictures would be taken without my knowledge. This will not happen again and I know some of you are saying good luck but I am a true beleiver of myself.

pris796

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

Danny — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 20:26:39 GMT

Hi, pris796!

Thanks for posting. Do you have a web address for the usage you're referring to? If this image was used on a Canon USA-operated web site or social media platform, we'll be glad to look into the matter. If the image was used on a site outside of Canon USA's control, we recommend contacting the operators of that site directly to let them know about this.

We look forward to your reply!

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 20:47:34 GMT

http://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Share-Your-Photos/BUDWEISER-CLYDESDALES/td-p/193045

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/11949i6D41ACC094869A06/image-size/original?v=v2&px=-1

Danny if you need anything else please let me know.

pris796

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

John_B — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 20:52:47 GMT

This is the link to our "Share your photos" album which you posted this image on ‎11-27-2016 11:28 AM. In your first post on this thread you stated "I want to know how did my Picture get on there Website without my Knowledge? " We are curious to what website you are referring to.

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:21:44 GMT

As I stated this picture is the Budweiser Clydesdales Website.

pris796

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

John_B — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:25:05 GMT

Could you please provide a link that we may investigate. Thank you.

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 22:13:33 GMT

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=budweiser%20clydesdales&FORM=O1HV1

My picture is out there, you will see two little children stand by one of the hores and my picture is close by.

pris796

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

John_B — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 22:25:35 GMT

The link you have just provided is an image search from the Bing search engine service. This is not an image hosting service and is not affiliated with Canon nor is this a "Budweiser Clydesdales Website" as you pointed out earlier. This is a search engine that will provide results from all images that you have listed in your search criteria. The image you are addressing was posted by you on our forum and has not been submitted by any of the moderators you mentioned in your previous mesages.

If you'd like to remove your image from our Community Forum you are welcome to or if you want we will be more than happy to remove the post for you.

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 22:59:36 GMT

Jphn,

This still do not answer my question, how did this picture get out there on there website when I only sent this picture to Canon and know one else and why do the picture have canon email address. We do not have to address this issue any futher because you do not have an answer for me. I will look else where for an answer. Please do not email me again unless you have a real answer for me.

Thank You,

pris796

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

TCampbell — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:06:32 GMT

A couple of points...

The "website" you are looking at is actually just an image-search. It would be like going to Google ... do a search for something... for example "pancakes"... and then wonder how all those pancakes got posted to Google. The answer is... they didn't. Google searched for pages that had the word "pancake" on the page ... and then provided a list of all those pages. Suddenly you have photos from pages where people took photos of their breakfast pancakes, recipe websites with pancakes, restaurants that serve pancakes for breakfast, companies that make pancake mix that you can buy in the store...and the list goes on.

This is the same thing... only it's Bing, and instead of pancakes, it's Budweiser Cyldesdales.

The image isn't posted to Bing... Bing is simply providing a list of all the places where it found images which are of Budweiser Clydesdales.

If you do the Budwieiser Clydesdale search, then pick the first image, it'll show you the webpage where it found that image (and offer to let you go to that page directly). But then pick the next image ... it'll probably be a completely different webpage. And so on...

So some of these images were found at Flickr (a popular image hosting website). Some of them are newspaper websites. I see one on the list that is from TripAdvisor (a travel website).

BTW, I did not actually find your exact image (I found several that appear similar ... just not the one you posted above. That's not to say that it isn't there... there are pages and pages and pages of search results and I only looked through the first few.

So the real question is... where did you post the image? Did you post this on Facebook? Did you post it on any photo gallery such as Flickr or Instagram or... the list goes on and on. If you posted this image ANYWHERE, then all these search engines such as Google and Bing will crawl the web and index everything they find.

Once you post it... people can find it. I've had people contact me to ask for permission to use photos that I've posted to the web. They found these images because they were searching these major Internet search engine sites such as Google or Bing.

Go back to Bing and search for your exact image... then select it. You should see a link that takes you to the webpage where they found it. This may be a webpage where you originally posted it.

Side note: There are revserve image-search websites such as TinEye.com. I pointed TinEye at the image you posted here and asked it to do a reverse search... it found nothing (it cannot find your exact image posted anywhere else). Google also has a way of doing a reverse image search.

Sometimes, however, if you post an image that someone else likes... they'll copy your image and post it somewhere else. This has nothing to do with Canon ... or even the website that hosted the image.

DMCA laws allow you to have content removed if someone is infringing your rights. I'm not a lawyer so I can't acurately describe how it works, but basically you issue something called a "take down notice" and the operator of the website (who usually is not the person who posted the copy of your work... if someone uploads something to Instagram and claims it is their own work, Instagram has no way to know that they are not the owner). Basically they take your word for it... but the other party has the right to object (otherwise you could order the take-down of things you don't actually own and that would infringe other peoples' rights.) If they do object, the content goes back up again and it's up to you to go after the third party directly (the website where the image was found has legal immunity as long as the honor your take-down request ... even if the other party demands that they put the content back up.)

This quickly gets to the point where it's not worth it. You get an implicit copyright of any image you legitimately photographed yourself. But this is a "copyright" and not a "registered copyright". To "register" a copyright, you file a copy of the image with the US copyright office and pay a small fee. Now it's "registered". If someone infringes a "registered" work then the fines can be worth quite a bit (thousands).

But if someone infringes a non-registered "copyright" work, then the generally the maximum you can collect is whatever the going rate would be for your work.... and THAT really gets tricky because now you have to prove that you really do make that much for your work. I cannot claim that one of my images is worth thousands of dollars unless I can show some evidence that people really will pay thousands of dollars for my images (and I can't do that becuase nobody has ever paid me thousands of dollars for any of my images... much to my disappointment). Most photographers make very little per image... this means that the "fine" for violating the copyright might be some paultry amount ... maybe $15 (it would highy unlikely to be even, say, $50... without some proof that you regularly get paid that much per image). And nobody wants to hire a lawyer at the hourly rate to collect such a small amount of money.

So in most of the online photographer forums that I frequent... when this comes up, and it turns out someone really did steal someone else's work (it happens all the time), the general advice is (a) if it wasn't a "registered" copyright, then it's probably not worth persuing and (b) learn a lesson and be more careful how you share images as well as registering the copyright on any images you really care about.

Some people sell photos commercially and it's hard to sell an image without showing a sample of the work. Some photographers will only show a small size image... but you pay if you want the larger resolution version. Some photographers will show a much larger resolution image... but they put a watermark on it so that you wont want to use it unless the watermark is removed, etc.

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:20:22 GMT

Thank you TCampbell, I do understand what you are saying. When I click on the image it is saying it was from Canon website.

Thank You,

pris796

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

Johnsonanna02 — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 23:40:14 GMT

This totally in the wrong spot but I’m using my phone.

I have a canon Sl1. I’ve been asked to take some photos that will be submitted to a magazine. Will my camera have the right resolution and all the right elements to fit this need? If anyone can help, let me know.

My email is **Address removed per forum guidelines**

Re: My Picture is on Budweiser Clydesdales Website under Images

pris796 — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 23:41:44 GMT

Johnsonabba02,

Go into Camera section and choose new message and submit your question there, someone will be able to help you.