wordpress.com. media tag on my photos
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Apologize if this has been addressed before. Couldn’t find it with the search function. Why is it that certain photos on my blog that are hit by visitors now have this prefix of “wordpress.com. media”? Generally the most “photogenic” of my images? Is this supposed to mean that WordPress now owns those images instead of me? I sure hope not. WordPress, are you saying I’ve given up copyright to you? I sure didn’t do this by any deliberate intent. This only started happening recently.
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Is this supposed to mean that WordPress now owns those images instead of me?
Of course not. The URL is the image file and this has ZERO to do with copyright. You hold copyright over anything you create. Read http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
Why is it that certain photos on my blog that are hit by visitors now have this prefix of “wordpress.com. media”?
That would be because you uploaded the images onto WordPress.com servers. The URL is the image file name and the image is stored on the WordPress.com servers. An image cannot be displayed online unless it is on a server. When a visitor’s browser calls for the image to be displayed the server pulls it from the URL.
Example: http://streamsandforests.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/p1020421.jpg -
Perhaps I am being stupid about something, but I don’t understand why this only started happening recently, and not with all of my uploaded images, but only a few that are especially good (totally by accident–I’ve never presented myself as an expert photographer). The only thing I can think of that’s changed recently is that whole different format for uploading images that was implemented a couple of months ago. But that’s not when this “wordpress.com.media” thing started happening. It only started within the last week or so. I’ve had a wordpress blog since October 2008 and this is the first time I’ve seen this prefix on my images.
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Hi streamsandforests,
I’m not sure what you mean by the statement:
certain photos on my blog that are hit by visitors now have this prefix of “wordpress.com. media”
I looked at your referrers, assuming that’s what you meant, and didn’t see that.
What could be happening is that you’re seeing references to people clicking on images from the WordPress.com Reader.
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