Watermarks are easily eliminated using a program such as Photoshop.
Unfortunately, there really is no way to make sure your photos are not used
except to not post them. MyFamily.com used to be secure, but ancestry.com
bought them and has stopped supporting them or keeping them current, trying to
get everyone to quit.
CE
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:14:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Webinar - Heritage Collector
From: elizhg...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Syble, if like the rest of us who photograph sites for findagrave and other
"FREE" online sites, you don't mind if people use the pics for their own (not
charging) use. It seems to me that putting these photos in their trees is OK -
a credit would be nice! I would use a watermark if I had a photoprogram I knew
how to do that in <G>
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Syble Glasscock <syble_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I noticed that he demonstrated how you could take/steal a photo from a Family
Tree on the Family Search website and drag it into this Heritage Collector
software on your computer. I would think this is illegal, I've had numerous
photos taken from my website and from where I've posted on findagrave.com then
they are added the ancestry.com trees which is clearly against Findagrave and
Ancestry's rules and I would certainly hope against the rules of Family Search.
Those of us that spend hours either walking cemeteries taking tombstone
photos, contacting relatives and requesting photos from them, restoring old
photos or paying others to restore them are highly offended that others take
this so lightly. People that take these, rarely source where the photo came
from, then they are passed from tree to tree and some even attached to the
wrong person with incorrect information.
I hope this situation will be address properly from Legacy, Heritage Collector
and from Family Search.
Syble
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