Magik Quilter

Just checked my stats on my flickr photos for yesterday and noticed that now I am a pro I am able to check to see where some of my referrals are coming from. I also saw that they have a fairly newish procedure for what to do if a lot of your photos are being shown on an external site, well it has a new icon next to it. If I had known this a few weeks ago it would have saved a lot of angst and late night emailing to flickr’s report abuse area. I emailed a report abuse with my concerns then emailed back the next day to say that both the people with the plug in problems were not profiting from it but I would appreciate it if they could look into blocking the plug in somehow. I never heard back from flickr… probably as there was a solution already there for me in the privacy settings section of my account [see below].

So to recap my problem with what I thought was a copyright issue. In both instances I spoke to the person whose blog it was that the Sustainable Style flickr group was plugged into and in the first instance there was hostility then acceptance that something was there that they said they had not realised was there and in the second instance a dialogue about data sharing ensued. So in both of these instances apparently I was within my rights to ask for my photos to be removed. And also both of these sites were technically within their rights to show these photos also….the onus now is apparently on us to opt out of having our photos appropriated by other sites.

So the solution to the problem [copied and pasted from flickr]

For sites using a lot of your photos ..If you find a lot of your photos being shown on an external site, there’s a good chance it may be using the public Flickr API. (You can find out more and see examples of some of these 3rd party projects on the Flickr Services page.)Your best first option is still to contact the service, and ask that they remove your content from display.You can also choose to restrict the use of your photos by any service using the public Flickr API, by opting out altogether. Bear in mind that there may be similar delays to the ones you might see if you remove your photos from search engine indexes. The internet can be a little sluggish sometimes. If you feel there is an unreasonable delay or a service is being particularly unresponsive, feel free to let us know.

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There is also a way of stopping people from blogging your photos without your knowledge or permission. You again opt out by changing the settings under privacy by going to flickr.com click name, then privacy and permissions setting, and edit who can blog your photos….also there is who can download your photos among other settings. Take your time checking it out, I have only myself to blame for not looking into this more thoroughly.

A few other people have had similar experiences with flickr including WEND,who has written a good post on it.