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<blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 21675" data-attributes="member: 1061">Pete is right.&nbsp; You should always carefully read the TOS (Terms of Service) for any online site that offers to host your images, especially for free.&nbsp; Odds are very high that they will claim ownership of your photos or that it will be very easy for others to steal your work.&nbsp; Or as Facebook puts it...&quot;share&quot; your work.&nbsp; The best case study of online image theft is <a href="http://www.thestolenscream.com/" target="_blank">The Stolen Scream</a>.&nbsp; I highly encourage everyone to take 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to watch all of this eye-opening video.&nbsp; Imagine casually posting your images to Flickr, and then one day finding out that your image is being sold on t-shirts, posters, bumper stickers and used as graffiti all over the world.&nbsp; And it seems like everyone is making money from your work...except you.I upload photos to Facebook, but only at a client's request.&nbsp; I never post any of my own serious personal work online.&nbsp; There is no way to 100% protect yourself from online theft, except to not upload images at all.&nbsp; I have found that Flickr offers zero value to me as a photographer, so I don't post much there either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Browncoat, post: 21675, member: 1061"] Pete is right. You should always carefully read the TOS (Terms of Service) for any online site that offers to host your images, especially for free. Odds are very high that they will claim ownership of your photos or that it will be very easy for others to steal your work. Or as Facebook puts it..."share" your work. The best case study of online image theft is [URL="http://www.thestolenscream.com/"]The Stolen Scream[/URL]. I highly encourage everyone to take 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to watch all of this eye-opening video. Imagine casually posting your images to Flickr, and then one day finding out that your image is being sold on t-shirts, posters, bumper stickers and used as graffiti all over the world. And it seems like everyone is making money from your work...except you. I upload photos to Facebook, but only at a client's request. I never post any of my own serious personal work online. There is no way to 100% protect yourself from online theft, except to not upload images at all. I have found that Flickr offers zero value to me as a photographer, so I don't post much there either. [/QUOTE]

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