Guides
Everything we know about getting a photo taken down.
Written so that you can do most of it yourself. Every guide names the law it relies on, and says where it stops.
Where to beginRead in order
- Before filing
- DMCA takedown notices for photographers
If it has happened to you
8 guides- 1Someone used my photo without permissionFound your photograph on a site, a post or a listing you never agreed to? What to check first, what to keep, who can remove it, and when a takedown notice is the right tool.
- 2How to remove your photo from a websiteYour photograph is on a website you do not control. How to find the company that hosts it, write a valid DMCA notice, deal with proxies, and follow up when nobody answers.
- 3Someone is using my pictures on Instagram or FacebookYour photos reposted on Instagram or Facebook without permission. The copyright report, what Meta shares with the account holder, impersonation reports, and what to do if posts keep coming back.
- 4A fake profile is using my photosSomeone set up a profile with your pictures. The difference between an impersonation report and a copyright report, which photos you can claim, and how to keep the two apart.
- 5Another seller copied my product photosYour product photography in a competitor’s listing on Amazon, Etsy, eBay or a Shopify store. Who owns product photos, how marketplace reports work, and what to keep before you file.
- 6Photographer copyright infringement: what to doFor working photographers whose images are used without a license. Choosing between takedown, a retroactive license and legal action, client-work questions, and the records that make each one easier.
- 7DMCA takedown notices for photographersHow the DMCA notice-and-takedown system works for photographs: the six required parts, where to send each kind of notice, counter-notices, and the mistakes that get notices ignored.
- 8How to remove an image from Google searchGetting a copy of your photo out of Google Images. What a copyright removal request does and does not do, the other removal routes Google offers, and why the page itself needs a separate notice.
Finding the copies
2 guides- 1How to find where your photo is used onlineA practical method for finding copies of your photographs: which images to search, how reverse image search sees the web, what it misses, and how to keep a record of what you find.
- 2Using reverse image search to find copies of your photosHow to get useful results from reverse image search when you are looking for copies of your own photographs, and how to tell a real copy from a lookalike before you do anything about it.
Free, and no account
See where your photo has been posted.
Paste the address of your photo and the search opens on the homepage, where you can also upload the file. Free, and no account.
Upload the file on the homepage
JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 6 MB
Go to the searchAlready know where the copies are? Open a matter.