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Google images licensable tag
Jo Ann Snover:
--- Quote from: Anyka on September 02, 2020, 02:48 ---Now what I don't understand is why a search on my (bestseller) images ONLY shows stock agency results, and no "images in use". Why is that? Are the agencies stripping them of metadata on download?
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I think the stripping is on upload. I found a number of my images when doing searches in Google images (not with my name, but with keywords I knew should apply to some of my images). Take a look at this comparison of the metadata I found in an image used by a customer (of Adobe Stock) versus what I originally uploaded.
Many other images I found, I assume from other agencies, had stripped my copyright info URL but kept the copyright notice, my name, title, description & keywords.
I don't know how we pressure agencies to retain metadata, but stripping it is part of them making us, the creators, "invisible" in searches and to buyers. Adobe's approach is the least destructive, but they do not own the copyright and I think it's incorrect for them to put the agency name into the copyright notice (and why they removed the year I have no idea)
Jo Ann Snover:
I did find an example where Shutterstock's licensable tag was linked to a specific image (versus a keyword search) but they still don't name the copyright holder in the description
f9photos:
--- Quote from: henri on September 02, 2020, 06:18 ---Adobe seems to be out, at least I couldn't find any images from adobe with the badge. All the others seem to be IN like SS, Alamy, iStock, Dreamstime etc... and many of the smaller are also in already.
Photoshelter is very much IN whereas SmugMug seems to be OUT. This is strange as SmugMug has an integrated e-commerce site which would fit well with the badge directing there. For independent photographers this could open some possibilities.
I wonder whether photosites like Flickr or 500px will allow the required URLs in IPTC?
edit. I added the required URLs in metadata in Lightroom and exported it locally.
I then used this tool to check the metadata
https://getpmd.iptc.org/getiptcpmd.html
The exported file had all the nice ITCP fields with all the required URLs like
statement of rights and licensor filled up nicely.
Next I uploaded the image to my own site in SmugMug and used Google search console to index it. The image showed then in Google image search but did not have the licensable badge on it. So I downloaded my image from SmugMug and checked with getpmd whether the required ITCP field were still there. They were gone from the image.
I then double checked by uploading the image to my Flickr site, downloaded the image from Flickr and checked the metadata. All the required stuff was there.
This is fairly disappointing as I have lot of images in my SmugMug site with integrated e-commerce platform. It would have been very nice to be able to incorporate these images in the Google image license scheme. This could have been a major opportunity for independent photographers selling images through SmugMug. Now the images are side tracked as google badges are missing.
It would be very interesting to know which other sites strip the required IPTC from images and which don't.
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I hope SmugMug will soon upgrade the engine so that the images will show up as licensable.
Dave:
I just had a look at the video and by the look of it unless you have your own site all you are doing is promoting stock libraries and to no financial return on our part, except possibly licensing that image but once the clicker has got to the library they could increase their search and license an image from another contributor, so again the only corporation thatj benefits is the Stock library. Imagine the amount of time it will take to do this to everyone of your images, go out and shoot images, don't waste your time.
Now if the stock libraies pay you to do it say .20c an image it might be worth alook at.
Rage:
For people using something like lightroom it seems like a few metatags need to be added in all future images to ensure they show this tag.
Hopefully stock images don't strip the metadata on this. I'm sure for pics posted elsewhere like Instagram, facebook, flickr, 500px and forums it might just end up helping
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