The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Google recently announced a range of new tools and services for searching the web. Using one of them - “Search by Image” - we've been able to quickly look across the web and see where our images have appeared.
We were surprised to find that in addition to our own website and news stories about us, there were many other websites who had taken our images and used them as their own (without permission). We have contacted these websites and told them to remove our images - you can't use a picture of one of our projects and pretend it's yours. Sorry.
In the digital media market, there are plenty of imitators and hype – so using tools like “Search by Image” from Google, it’s now refreshingly easy to stop this kind of copyright infringment.
If you think your images are being used without permission, then give it a go and find out at: http://images.google.co.uk/
UPDATE: Make that 16 websites we've now found unlawfully using our images.