Recently in the news (NPR, June 12, 2009 : link) a family’s Christmas card photo ended up a world away as an advertisement for groceries. Simply “… [she] posted the photo on her Web site and a few social networking sites.” and soon enough the image was used in a store front in Czechoslovakia. In an age where news travels fast, so can your personal images. Ensuring your privacy and your copyrights are respected on the internet can be a challenge when anyone can view, copy, and reproduce your work… even a family photo!
As ThirstyPhoto begins to support contests on our site, the amount of images will grow from all your submissions. We intend to protect your rights fully. Images on this site may not be used in any way without the written permission of the photographer. There are ways you can help protect your own work on this site – actually anywhere – so now is a good time to talk about how to do that. At the end of this post is a Poll to get your opinion on further consideration on how we can protect your rights on this site.
About Metadata
The term “Metadata” can broadly be defined as “data about data”. With respect to digital images and photography, metadata can describe a wide range of attributes about a particular photograph. There are three types or metadata within a photograph.
- EXIF – what your camera stores into the image
- IPTC – a predigital age information standard typically used by stock photo agencies
- XMP – a more upgraded standard for the digital age
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