Photography On The Net – What Are The Dangers?

When you put photography on the net expect the unexpected. Your pictures can turn up anywhere in the net. This can however be prevented if you put watermark or disable the downloading option. This is why professional photographers prefer working with professional image companies or specific sites that use these methods.

The biggest image library is that of photography on the net. This means that there are billions of sites that contain billions upon billions of images. There is a chance that one of your pictures will turn up on these websites.

You have to accept this fact, that no one can completely check photography on the net or each single block of text for its copyright. You should not despair if your pictures will just be used in blogs and personal websites. If they are going to be used for profit then that’s another thing.

You can actually take it as a compliment when somebody took the time to appreciate and download your pictures. It is also free publicity for you or your site, which will be beneficial to you.

When To Worry About Photography On The Net

You should be worried about your photographs on the net when it is placed in business sites where you are not paid. When these business sites use your photographs for their own cause or to make money then you have the right to get mad and hire a lawyer.

It is also understandable for you to get mad when your images are being used for fraud. This happens mostly to portrait photographers or those photographers that do clothing catalogs. They make fake personal ads that use the stolen images; this will then complete their fraud schemes.

The “lonely heart” scheme works by pretending to have fallen in love with someone online and then ask the lovesick person to give him or her plenty of money. Scammers in the old scheme will personally pretend falling in love with you. Now it is being done online. The scammers now use another person’s portrait rather than their own.

There is good news about this. You will not be prosecuted as a scammer for stealing the images for fraud. But you can be investigated by the police if the person responsible is exposed.

There are other frauds that are now proliferating and we should be aware of them. Search the net for other schemes and examples of the other dangers that can be created from photography on the net.