How to Check if Your Photo is Stolen
Photos and other images get stolen all the time online. Someone takes a photo from the photographer’s website or social media channels and uses it for their own needs. This is completely illegal and happens to me all the time here at How-To Geek. Let’s do a quick copyright law refresher. Unless the photographer signs away the copyright to their images or releases them into the public domain, they are the sole and automatic copyright holder. Using their images without their permission is copyright infringement unless you have a very specific “fair use” grounds for doing it—and trust me, you probably don’t. Just because an image is “freely available” on the internet, doesn’t mean you have the right to take it and use it. RELATED: How to Remove Watermark, Logo and Date Stamp from Photos? Stealing images is super common, so how can you tell if a photo on a website has been taken from somewhere else? Let’s find out. Check for Copyright Data The simplest way to check if an image...