When I used to put watermarks on my pictures my hubby ask why you are doing nobody will take it. If they want they will ask you first. However I found that is not the case. Last week Lisa of Lisa's kitchen of found out that somebody has copied her entire blog and put in their site.
Yesterday while reading famous Malayalam daily newspaper (Malayala Manorama online version) in the internet I found that picture from my blog was copied and posted in one of their article by a staff reporter here is the link. There is no acknowledgment nor was my permission taken. Stealing the photos or articles for commercial use is painful. Wonderful correspondent (he/she)using my picture which is of Moru curry( Yogurt gravy) for Curries that cure the Blood pressure, and posted under recipes of Drumstick leaves soup, Pumpkin beans curry and Avalose unda ( snack made with roasted rice flour and coconut). I have written to the newspaper to complain about this blatant plagiarism. Assistant web producer wrote me back that they got content from another magazine and they have removed the content from the site. But they moved the story from the front page to a link. Anyway watch out for photo and content stealing.
Swathi
0This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Swathi says
Thank you guys for the support.
Panchpakwan says
I am so sorry..I duuno why people do such bad thing..
kamala says
Swathi,
Felt bad even i experienced some thing like this i dont know why they steel photos and articles from others hard work.
SathyaSridhar says
Swathi, how to find somebody copied our photos dear, in my blog i didnt even put no water marks nothing indicating thats my recipe dear.
Sushma Mallya says
This is really not done,how can anyone do like that...they must really be taught a lesson soon..i am so sorry it happened to you swathi...its really bad,..no one has the right to do all this...
SS says
Thats really frustrating..
Hamaree Rasoi says
Oh so sorry to hear about his Swathi. Swathi there are few watermarking softwares through which you can watermark all your imagines with your brand. And I just hope offenders grow conscience. Thanks for sharing this bit of information with us.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
PranisKitchen says
thats too bad .sorry to hear about that..so many recipes are there in that kind of magazine and newspaper,always watermark the pics.that should be done in the center of the picture otherwise they will edit and use
my hus also asked me who is going to steal these pics..but now i can tell him ur experience.thanks for the informative post yarr..
Xiao Yen Recipes says
That's horrible! Blog plagiarism is on the rise. I read from other bloggers who encounter the same problem too. Google should have a site for bloggers to report plagiarism.
Rosebelle at Three Wisdoms wrote about this and advised what bloggers can do to protect their published work by disabling the right click feature. You might want to check it at.
http://threewisdoms.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-protect-your-published-contents.html
Viki's Kitchen says
Plagiarism is wild nowadays dear. Good that you found it. A very informative post.
Ann says
So Sorry to hear this, and it sucks when it happens. yes watermark can prevent this, but not totally though:(
Swathi says
Az, Kiran and Priya thanks for support. I don't know what to do about these situations.
Priya says
Really makes me angry, people never respect the other's hardworks..dunno when they gonna stop this nasty works..
Kiran says
I should start watermarking my photos.
Kiran says
Wow it's hard to stop these internet thieves.Thank you for sharing this info with us.
Az says
so sorry to hear that... I am sure it must be very shocking. I don't have copyright on my photos either but was thinking about it... now I should do it as soon as possible...