Plagiarism. So easy to copy and paste. Right click and save.

How about a few tools to help you find your absconded pixels? How fortunate you are to be reading this little post about how to find out who is using your photos or who is copying your blogs. After all, it is a question that hits everyone when they copy someone else … “who is copying my blog?”

Photos and images are easily taken. While embedded watermarks help visually they don’t do much digitally. Digital signatures can be embedded in images to help track them but there are holes even in that protection. Many people who work in copy protection employ multiple tools.

Here is a very simple one, free to use, to see if someone else is using your image even if they have changed the name. While not perfect it can point you in the right direction: http://www.tineye.com

With TinEye you simply upload your original image and the system searches for matching images in their database. From the website, “When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or ‘fingerprint’ for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye can even find a partial fingerprint match. TinEye does not typically find similar images (i.e. a different image with the same subject matter); it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.”