Legal Ownership of Photos on WordPress

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  natherault · Member · May 11, 2017 at 3:46 pm

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  I recently found a photo I took being used in several newspapers without my consent or, in several cases, credit at all. The only place I have posted this photo publicly is on this site and I wanted to check that this website does not open my photos up for creative commons licensing so I want to clarify before I proceed with legal proceedings: do WordPress publishers retain ownership of their photos when posting on our WordPress blogs?

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2017 at 3:49 pm

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  You own your own intellectual property.

  Please see: https://en.support.wordpress.com/copyright-infringement-what-to-do/
  See also https://en.support.wordpress.com/our-dmca-process/

  Be aware that all information of any kind on the internet can be copied by shooting a screenshot, regardless of any warning we may place on the site like copyright notices. See: Prevent Content Theft https://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/

  What’s best for your wordpress.com hosted blog is watermarking your images or not placing any images and/or text that you don’t want stolen on the internet at all.

  If you use the Duotone theme right click is disabled via CSS but that’s not available on any other themes. This is because anyone can find instructions on the internet and get around it in less than 20 seconds flat.

  For clarity you can read what Staff said here about Duotone https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-disable-right-click-on-photos?replies=5#post-1659713 but in the end the effect still means the answer is the same one I posted above.

  You may also want to read Perspectives on Watermarks (and Various Methods to Protect Your Images). A roundup of opinions and processes on adding watermarks to images online, from nine WordPress photographers. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/watermarks/

  If you require plugins see: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com