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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
This is why most photographers today are embedding their names into the photos in almost invisible locations (inside shadows, patterns, etc. and almost transparent) besides having a visible copyright name and mark. Someone can easily remove the visible stuff and the metadata, but unless they know where to look, they will never find the hidden markings. Thank goodness they aren't doing this with books as well!
Stitchawl
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That doesn't help you though. Once someone has removed the easily visible mark via cropping or meta data removal, they or others can claim it's orphaned and use it without your direct permission. After a reasonable search to try to locate the original author, but that may not be easy to do (finding the original photographer) even for those who honestly try.
Hidden watermarking may help you prove they've used your photo, but having the originals/raw files would do the same, neither stop them using it and getting away with paying a standard fee only if you catch them.
Hopefully it doesn't happen and people use the system as they should, but human nature being what it is there'll be plenty of people more than happy to remove metadata/crop to use something. Unless there's some very early prosecutions over people abusing the system in that way it'll probably run rife.