Tuesday, October 14, 2008

In regard to art theft, Orphan WOrks, etc...

For those of you who do not know ( I did not until seconds ago), Google may be offering your artwork for sale.

I'm sure we are all aware that any image posted to a blogspot blog is stored in a Picase Web Album hosted by Google. Look under "My Accounts" where you Gmail, Blogger, etc are listed. There is a Picasa link. CHECK YOUR ALBUMS.

Google offers all uploaded jpegs for purchase as prints (4x6, 8x10, etc) through these albums UNLESS YOU CHANGE YOUR PREFERENCES. I know that its probably not a big deal, but some folks like to post big images on blogs...

Poster beware. I went ahead and made my images unable to be downloaded and my Picasa albums unsearchable. Just thought folks should know!

Enjoy the Day,
Chris

6 comments:

craigp said...

i don't follow. where is the "My Accounts" link located? at blogger.com? gmail? i'm confused.

craigp said...

oh i found the picasa settings in my account but it's preset to not allowing any images to be publically shown. still confused.

craigp said...

oops. heh. found the options at the bottom of the picasa setting page. thanks for the info.

(it still seems like people can only order prints of images if you select the option to have public viewing and select which images you want publically viewed.)

pw! said...

important stuff. thanks Chris!

Anonymous said...

is it preset? my wasn't and all of my images were available. i went through the buying process all the way up to credit card payment (of which no money would be coming to me I assumed).

still safe to check. if its present to not sell, i'm sorry to cause concern. but mine was not, and i had never changed any settings before.

Chogrin said...

Definitely have to look into this...

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