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I watermark my blog images. I haven't watermarked Flickr images. So far I've only had to protect myself from the local pick pockets. I didn't know ex-G men were going to sweep them up.

I haven't tried the widgets and I'm not at all convinced of the direction this is taking in my tiny shriveled heart. ;-)

The only local locations that would appeal to my readers in a widget has already been covered in depth on my blog (with the same, plus more photos). I don't see the need to put up a widget. I already built an entire page on the few that were test posted by me anyway.

I'm not the end all be all for local content but I'm years ahead of anyone in this area so maybe I'll just hoe my own row on my own URL and keep my readers and subscribers there.

Yes, do what's best for you.

Carl, the glitch in that plan is that Yahoo owns flickr and displays the images. Their terms of services are mentioned on Flickr, maybe not Yahoo. You can look at any of the images on flickr and find the publication permissions on the right hand side. Your policy of linking back works with Flickr creative commons, not Yahoo.

I now have a little over three thousand images on Flickr making the burden of protecting my material an impossibility if I ever want to get my work done. The flickr images that you host aren’t creative commons. Yahoo/Flickr will probably figure it out soon enough and throw a fit or throw a fit at the direction of someone else that pitches a fit.

People steal my work all of the time and I suspect that it’s because it is good. I figure it’s just a matter of time before another person in the real estate sector starts populating your site with my photos and using my images to look professional without paying me a dime for my time or gas.

I’ve saturated this town and put this content on my own sight and have the duplicate images on my own site, Active Rain and Flickr.

It’s also a matter of time before Mr. Rookie Agent that discovers the web is then going start swiping images for their sites and blogs and they’ll steal from you, too. The difference is, they’ll be stealing my content from your site.

Don’t misunderstand the tone, I’m not angry, just discussing.

Chris, you may want to consider using Watermarks on your photos. (I'll have
to do a post on this.)
BTW, have you tried the Nextstop widgets?

Hey Chris -- Carl here from nextstop. Just so you know, we use the image search APIs provided by Yahoo and Google to find photos publicly available on the web, and we take the concerns of copyright holders very seriously. We're very careful to use a smaller version of the photo, as well as provide attribution and links back to the original source of the photo. We find that a lot of people enjoy the additional visibility this gives their photos, but if for whatever reason you would rather your photos not be used we'll remove them immediately. Just send us (feedback@nextstop.com) the URL to where they are used on nextstop, a link to the original photo, and we'll take care of it.

I raced over to check it out. Nobody had posted anything in my city. I threw three recommendations up on their site after I created my account. Imagine my surprise when the photos available for selection were scraped off of my flickr account (all rights reserved), my active rain account and my blog. Great site, shame they're stealing other people's content to build it.

If you search "Bonita Springs, Florida" you'll find my posts and can see the images. They added a link back to the site they took it from, I know. So what.

I went to check it out. You're right, they did grab your flickr photos.
(they are very nice, though).