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Mar 19, 2021 · Learn how to search for your images on the internet and protect your copyright with Pixsy's image protection and monitoring service. Find out how to use Google, reverse image search, and other tools to locate your stolen pictures online.
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The simplest way to check if an image is being used without permission is to check if there’s any embedded copyright metadata. You can download the image and check using your operating system’s built-in tools, but it’s quicker and easier to use an online metadata viewer like Metapicz.
Right click on the image you want to check and click "Copy Image Address." Note that the exact wording of that command might be different in different browsers, but you'll find the command you're after.
Head to Metapicz, paste in the URL you copied, and click the "Go" button.
You’ll see all the metadata that’s embedded in the image. If it’s there, the copyright data will be front and center. You can see that—shockingly—I’m the copyright holder for the image I’m using as an example.
If the copyright data doesn’t line up with the page where it’s posted, then there’s a good chance it’s being used without permission. For example, I hold the copyright to most of the photos in my articles on How-To Geek, but since I write here and have an author page here, everything is probably above board. If, on the other hand, you find images with my copyright information embedded where there’s no connection between me and the site, then things probably aren’t on the level.
Now, this isn’t a perfect method. It’s simple to strip out any metadata, including copyright information. It might also not be embedded in the first place. That’s the case with more than a few of my images on the site. Just because it’s not there, though, doesn’t mean that the image isn’t copyrighted.
The other good way to find out if a photo has been stolen is to use a reverse image search and a bit of detective work.
There are a few different reverse image sites out there. Google’s is the most well known, but Bing also has a good one. TinEye is interesting, and their matching technology is better than most. Unfortunately, I’ve found they don’t crawl a lot of the sites where my images end up, so their database is far less complete. For this article, I’m going to use Google.
On the Google Images page click the little camera icon in the search bar.
Either paste in a URL or upload a file from your computer.
Google will show you what it thinks the image is as well as some visually similar photos, but what we’re interested in is the "Pages That Include Matching Images" section.
You can see there are two How-To Geek links—totally authorized uses of my photo—and three non-How-To Geek pages. They’re all using this photo of mine illegally.
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Learn how to find out if an image is being used without permission by checking for copyright metadata or using reverse image search. See examples of image theft and how to detect it online.
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Dec 17, 2021 · Learn how to detect, prevent, and deal with photo theft on the web. Find out how to register, watermark, monitor, and protect your images with various tools and services.
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