Here at the TinEye HQ we receive user questions about our reverse image search engine and its search results every day, which is wonderful (we are not complaining!). So we’ve decided to answer our user questions through a series of blog posts. This week’s question comes to us in many many many forms, but it can simply be distilled to: “How do I find the copyright owner of...
Doubleplus Chutzpah!
Doubleplus Chutzpah or when a company in your industry helps itself to your images! Sometimes what we find when we look at where our TinEye graphics appear on the web (we are an image search company after all!) is not really surprising. Like our corporate logo in the profile of an Elance designer we don’t even know! That’s not news as this type of thing happens everyday on the web...
The truth and nothing but the truth: Shepard Fairey lies.
Via Techcrunch: Striking at the heart of his fair use case against the AP, Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used to make the Hope and Progress posters. Mr. Fairey has also now admitted to the AP that he fabricated and attempted to destroy other evidence in an effort to bolster his fair use case and cover up...
Photoshelter partners with TinEye
What happens when you mix two really great things together? Generally, something super-great. And that’s why the TinEye team is excited to announce our partnership with the good folks over at Photoshelter, a leader in portfolio websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be adding the entire Photoshelter image collection to the TinEye...
Durban and TinEye
I would really want the weather to improve in Durban, because when the weather is crap – Daniel Cuthbert’s words not mine – he spends his time using TinEye and that’s really good but he find out upsetting things: like say his photograph(s) being used without permission. That’s not nice and that’s why I really wish that the weather would improve tremendously in...
Where in the world are your photos?
Omar Gallaga’s post “Where in the world wide Web are your photos?” caught my eye today for a few reasons. There’s a great citizen journalist story wrapped up in there, along with some thoughts on Creative Commons, copyright and giving your images away for free. One quote I found particularly interesting was: Share your photos with the world, or hide them behind virtual...