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Posts focused on search visibility, documentation habits, and practical infringement recovery systems.
When I found commercial websites using my photos without permission, one of my first instincts was to wonder if I even had a case. I hadn't registered my images anywhere. I didn't have a watermark on them. I'd posted them publicly on the internet. Did I actually have any rights here? Yes. Unambiguously yes.
Published Apr 16, 2026
The uncomfortable truth is that if you've been posting your work online for any length of time, there's a real chance someone has used it without permission. The good news is that finding out isn't hard, and it doesn't cost anything.
Published Apr 9, 2026
I was expecting to find a few more Reddit posts, maybe a Pinterest board, possibly a Tumblr from 2014. What I actually found was a handful of commercial websites using my image — a local business, a media site — without a license, without permission, without so much as a credit line. Just my photo, deployed on their site like it was a free stock image they'd pulled from somewhere.
Published Apr 6, 2026