rdaner
Senior Member
Taken 30 June.
Toronto CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre
Bibi L
Active Member
Feel like I’m making a big deal of this, but just wanted to point out a discovery, when looking at UT’s TikTok (I don’t use TikTok) I noticed photos were not credited (which I don’t mind as much but just saying that if anyone cares) which I didn’t think much of, but when looking closer, I noticed that when they used one of my photos they had edited out my signature? Unless I’m blind. Just a weird thing I saw. Wondering what’s up with that?
Original photo:
TikTok video.
Without the circle and arrows I added.
Original photo:
TikTok video.
Without the circle and arrows I added.
Natika33
Active Member
Yeah, I don't think that's okay. I think it should be presumed that if the poster took the time to add their signature they want to be credited. But even if they didn't, it'd be courteous to mention who submitted it in the tweet.
Bibi L
Active Member
Yeah, I saw a lot of photos going uncredited. They should be credited! I saw in a particular CIBC Square video, a lot of mburrrrr’s photos were used without any credits. And yeah, strange that they went through the process of removing the signature. Not only do they not bother to credit, but they get rid of the credit in the photo!
Johnny Au
Senior Member
Bibi L
Active Member
I should probably place an obvious one, and another hidden one.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
…or be like me and @kotsy by creating graffiti-like watermarks that blend in with the surroundings.
Bibi L
Active Member
Richtea
New Member
From today (Don Mills & Eglinton):
GenerationLee
Senior Member
Thats exactly what I'm doing now. Thats for informing us, I dont have nor will ever have Tiktok, so its good to know. Its unacceptable to not be credited for photography.
Bibi L
Active Member
That’s good. You can also use image reverse searchers to find if your photo is being used on another website.
GenerationLee
Senior Member
Good to know! Thanks.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
There is no easy solution to this...and is likely a pain to do outside of being really skilled at it, but making sure one's watermark signature is placed as such within the photographic contributions that will make it more difficult for anyone else to remove. Mr. kotsy is a good example of this by tagging grainy signatures upon grainy and/or awkward subject matter and surfaces. This does not guarantee that this will stop anyone using it without proper crediting, but it will at least act as more of a deterrent in doing so.
...others here have used more extreme measures in the past such as slapping their contributions with huge arsed watermarks or spamming it with colourful clip art characters. I find that really distracting as I am sure other readers do too, but I guess it was working for them.
...others here have used more extreme measures in the past such as slapping their contributions with huge arsed watermarks or spamming it with colourful clip art characters. I find that really distracting as I am sure other readers do too, but I guess it was working for them.
macro
Active Member
max
Active Member
So I looked and TikTok is not one of UT's listed socials here: https://urbantoronto.ca/services/
Is the account actually associated with UT? I've recently seen a trend reported by some of the creators I follow of content being reposted on other social networks (or in some cases the same social network) with watermarks removed and I wonder if that's what's going on here.
Something from The Powers that Be here would be nice to clear up confusion. Paging @Edward Skira
Is the account actually associated with UT? I've recently seen a trend reported by some of the creators I follow of content being reposted on other social networks (or in some cases the same social network) with watermarks removed and I wonder if that's what's going on here.
Something from The Powers that Be here would be nice to clear up confusion. Paging @Edward Skira