Comments on: Finding a Picture That I Took Used on eBay

By: cyrozap

cyrozap — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:24:43 +0000

Since the image is hosted on eBay’s servers, could you send them a C&D? That would get the listing taken down pretty quickly.

Or, of course, you could always send a message to the seller and politely ask that they either give attribution or remove the image.

By: Keith Neufeld

Keith Neufeld — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:26:46 +0000

Thomas, this resized image is hosted on eBay.

I have previously done some Apache-fu to provide a custom message to people who view a site that abusively embedded my hosted images in their pages.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:49:07 +0000

If he’s scraping the image as a link from your site (using your hosted instance of the image), drop a replacement image in there for a while with something humorous on it to mess with him and his potential customers.

If he downloaded and re-uploaded the image, then no harm done really. I’m more surprised that he’s got something so specific on EBay.

By: florinc

florinc — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:25:07 +0000

I found one of my pictures (of the Wise Clock kit) used on etsy, with no relationship to the seller’s product. Now I am seriously thinking of taking some action.

By: Bob Fenichel

Bob Fenichel — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:32:18 +0000

Use https://www.tineye.com/ on your posted images, and you will start to see just how frequent image piracy is. For my experience, see http://www.fenichel.net/pages/piracy/RemoteHighways.htm. I wish I could be as philosophical about it as Arvydas.

By: Kevin Groce

Kevin Groce — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:15:42 +0000

EBay refused to take down my images before. Hard to get them to drop them from my experience. Even with a watermark.

By: JD

JD — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:05:10 +0000

Looking at the quality of the photo of the seller’s other current item for sale, I’d say that he used your photo because it is of significantly better quality than what he has the skills to create himself.

By: Arvydas

Arvydas — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:31:00 +0000

I used to bother about copyright of my images. I even used to put watermarks on them, but now I don’t care. It’s just not worth the time when the information changes on the internet so quickly. I’m even flattered that ppl find my content and use them.