PictureDefense helps you with your stolen photos

Ever had a photo stolen from your online presence and published without your permission, or even worst, passed off as someone else's work, and wondered what you could do about it? Well, a new free service and website from PhotoTips James Beltz has been setup to help.

PictureDefense.com will help guide you through what you need to do if…

• Someone's Facebook profile, fan page, or group
• Any website hosted and owned by Google. Like Blogger, Blogspot, YouTube, and Google+
• Any website owned by Yahoo like Flickr.com
• Another photographer's free standing website
• Used in a web advertisement on a business website

For more information, or to bookmark this essential website, click here.

Protect your photos with Marksta

London born Photojournalist John D McHugh has just released a watermarking app for the iPhone. Tired of having his internet content stolen, John with the help of an app developer created Marksta, an app that allows you to watermark/copyright your images with text or a logo, before sharing them to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or another online photo sharing service.

In an interview with the British Journal of Photography, John told reporter Olivier Laurent "I was tired of people stealing my work on the web, so rather than fight what can't be fought, I developed Marksta."

Marksta [App Store Link] was originally released a few days ago, and at the time of release was available for free, however the app has since been priced at £1.49/$1.99/€1.59, which whilst more expensive than some other similar apps, is still worth checking out, if like many, you are concerned about protecting your online images.

Source: British Journal of Photography