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Raymond:
Hi, sorry, my English is rather poor. I hope you still understand what I'm writing here.
I have a few images on EyeEm market. My concern is that anyone can easily copy the photos from the website via screenshot and use it in the web. The resolution of the screenshot copies of 96 dpi and the size are suitable to use the copied photos for the web. On the homepage of EyeEm, there is apparently no protection against this. Other photo agencies, such as Shutterstock or Adobe Stock, have their names or logos on the pictures, thereby providing protection. EyeEm has it, too, but only when opening the larger formate images. Do I see this correctly or have I missed something? Any suggestions how to deal with this?

nomore:
I had your same concern with Eyeem and didn't submit there in the beginning.
I even wrote them a couple of times but from their answers they have no intention of adding a watermark soon.

Then even other sites started to offer larger - although not as large - unwatermarked previews, and at Shutterstock there are other ways to steal large images through a bug in their Facebook API.

So the only way to deal with this is accepting the risk.
Good people buy photos not because they can't steal, but because they value legality and peace of mind. And thieves will always be thieves, we can't fight them with technology only.

Pauws99:

--- Quote from: nomore on March 05, 2019, 11:15 ---I had your same concern with Eyeem and didn't submit there in the beginning.
I even wrote them a couple of times but from their answers they have no intention of adding a watermark soon.

Then even other sites started to offer larger - although not as large - unwatermarked previews, and at Shutterstock there are other ways to steal large images through a bug in their Facebook API.

So the only way to deal with this is accepting the risk.
Good people buy photos not because they can't steal, but because they value legality and peace of mind. And thieves will always be thieves, we can't fight them with technology only.

--- End quote ---
I doubt the people stealing these images would ever buy them with the internet the way it is so while it is of course very annoying that people might steal them I doubt it is costing me money. So yes I agree its just something we have to live with.

SuperPhoto:
This is what you can do.

a) Don't submit to them
b) Figure out a way to prevent image theft
c) Submit to them, and don't worry about the people who will just take the images, because there will be people who need larger images. (Not all images are used "just" for website design/etc).

cobalt:
Submit with open  eyes the type of content where you can accept that risk.

There is a reason why I submit small daily life snapshots and not a lot of higher quality content and little people work.

It is unprofessional, but it is, what it is.

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