P McCabe Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I'm hoping some people can give me some tips, as I am having issues finding my images that have been licenced. I have tried Google searches using a combination of my name and the agency name .eg ALamy to little effect. Similarly I have tried similar searches on Amazon, and have found a few things. Is there anything else I should e doing? Keyword combinations etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 images.google.com drag a thumnail image into the search box km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York Photographer Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Try searching google books for your name / alamy, might turn up a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 A short while ago it was easier to find images using Google Images and perhaps the Chrome plugin that made it really easy. But recently many magazines and newspapers are hiding the images behind supscription barriers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Install one of the google image search extensions. Then search on a right click from the 'images sold' thumbnails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 What is/are the image number(s)? I can try to find it for you. I use Tin Eye and a Java Script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Elliott Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I do a couple of things: Google Images: type in your pseudonym in quotes. For example, I put "julian elliott". To get rid of nonsensical stuff for example images on art.com I add -art.com Google Books: as above. Just found two books I didn't know about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I use this tool: http://jarred.github.io/src-img/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jordan Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Very interesting! I had a sale of DX5PFF, which I had already spotted in Mail on Line. This MOL sale was reported yesterday. Searching on Google images reveals usages on three other sites: Affordable Holiday Deals UK Newsday usa.onlinenigeria Of course I could start chasing them for payment, but copyright theft is a fact, and I feel that life is just too short to bother. What, if anything would you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Very interesting! I had a sale of DX5PFF, which I had already spotted in Mail on Line. This MOL sale was reported yesterday. Searching on Google images reveals usages on three other sites: Affordable Holiday Deals UK Newsday usa.onlinenigeria Of course I could start chasing them for payment, but copyright theft is a fact, and I feel that life is just too short to bother. What, if anything would you do? Welcome in the club. This is the main reason for my thoughts about leaving the newspaper deal. I have mostly given up chasing the illegal usages you describe, often some are copying the whole article and leaving no way of contact. If you chase the URL and find the owner they claim that they are not responsible for the various uploaders' contents, they kind of sell the space. I don't think this holds legally in the end. But unless it is a decent site with contact possibilities and a reasonable chance of getting paid I am usually not wasting my time. It should not be like this, and it often results in more uses which are difficult to chase. Yesterday I was credited usd 3.28 net for a newspaper use like this. It is not worth it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jordan Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Niels, I am glad that I opted into the newspaper scheme. In sales number terms they are about 22% of my total. The prices for use in the print newspaper (as opposed to editorial website) are reasonable, the last two were $65 gross each and the previous few were $22. What does pay consistently badly, and is more open to theft, is the on-line-only usage or "Editorial Website" they usually are between $4 and $7 gross. Even so, a five minute shoot of a local public building three years ago, has yielded 26 sales aggregating $274. The copyright infringements that I mentioned would, I think, only yield small payments, certainly not worth the bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 The copyright infringements that I mentioned would, I think, only yield small payments, certainly not worth the bother. It's only worthwhile in the UK now you can threaten them with the new small claims procedure. Elsewhere if they're not English speaking or if there's no email address I don't even bother. Mail Online is particularly prolifically ripped off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Very interesting! I had a sale of DX5PFF, which I had already spotted in Mail on Line. This MOL sale was reported yesterday. Searching on Google images reveals usages on three other sites: Affordable Holiday Deals UK Newsday usa.onlinenigeria Of course I could start chasing them for payment, but copyright theft is a fact, and I feel that life is just too short to bother. What, if anything would you do? deleted...dbl post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Very interesting! I had a sale of DX5PFF, which I had already spotted in Mail on Line. This MOL sale was reported yesterday. Searching on Google images reveals usages on three other sites: Affordable Holiday Deals UK Newsday usa.onlinenigeria Of course I could start chasing them for payment, but copyright theft is a fact, and I feel that life is just too short to bother. What, if anything would you do? Too short to bother? I collected 6 figures last year from tracking infringers and sending invoices or cases to imagerights and my lawyers...and that's just on a few photos! L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 We don't have statutory damages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 We don't have statutory damages. My minimum retroactive license is $1200.00. It's 'not statutory damages.' If you register your copyrights in the USA and are infringed from a USA company,you can seek damages. I've been collecting for decades(pre-internet) Imagerights as well as my own agency have collected many many times from the UK and Germany. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I have always been in the newspaper scheme and whereas a lot of images go to the mail online or the guardian online for single figure prices, last month I had an image licensed to a British newspaper for $107 gross, (I think it might have been the Sun as it had a 5m print run), so reasonable prices can still be had despite being in the scheme. I agree also with those above when they say that sometimes the guardian and the mail will use the same images time and time again and the income increases... Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I have always been in the newspaper scheme and whereas a lot of images go to the mail online or the guardian online for single figure prices, last month I had an image licensed to a British newspaper for $107 gross, (I think it might have been the Sun as it had a 5m print run), so reasonable prices can still be had despite being in the scheme. I agree also with those above when they say that sometimes the guardian and the mail will use the same images time and time again and the income increases... Kumar And that's why I don't work with photo agencies that sell subscriptions. It's like they get the photo for pennies and run it forever in many articles. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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