Website redistributing my image as a phone wallpaper...

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Hi :) I do photography completely as a hobby at the moment but I did a reverse image search on one of my photos and came across something I wasn't happy with.

I found a Hungarian mobile phone related website which is giving one of my photos away as a wallpaper. I'm assuming that my image is not the only one which has been used in this way and that most of the other images shared on that website are also stolen.

They don't appear to be making money from the images but I'm still not happy in them being used in this way.

I've never really dealt with anything like this before so I genuinely don't know where I stand. It's fine if it's on Facebook as they've always been very prompt in removing any of my images but when it's another website (and one that isn't in English) it seems a different ball game altogether.


Any advice? :)

Also, I'm not sure if I can share the url or if it's a good idea to, as it would probably show up in their stats. (?)
 
I would contact them first and give them a chance to remove it. Send them an invoice for the use.. chances are this won't get paid but well worth a shot. And then as above contact the host.
 
Thank you both :)

I've done a whois lookup on the domain name and it says the domain is registered with godaddy but I can't seem to figure out who actually hosts them. It says hellohosting.info, which is just a blank page. I tried googling hellohosting.info and it's just a big jumble to me.

I have got an email address to try but I'm not holding my breath. It looks like they have a whole network of these sites.
 
Reverse image searching allows you to see where on the web a particular image is being used (providing it's been indexed).

If you go to google images, there's a little camera on the right side of that search box, if you click it you can either upload an image or provide an image url to search for. Google will then look for your image, or even portions of your image (if it's been cropped) and give you the results of websites that it can be found on.
 
I had the same issue about 2 weeks ago. A Blackberry phone site in Korea was showing one of my images with a downloadable wallpaper version next to it. I sent them an email stating i was the copyright owner and had not given permission. I also suggested a fair cost for unauthroised use and the unlimited downloads they were offering of the image should it still be on their site in 24 hours.

It was removed within the hour and i got a very apologetic email with it which, if im honest was more than i had expected.
 
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