Max brunell , Feb 08, 2012; 12:29 p.m.
So I was looking through some images I posted online. I noticed some of them say all rights reserved in the bottom left hand corner.... I did NOT put that on there.
So I checked another place where I posted the same images and the "all rights reserved" is on the same images there as well.
So then I checked the hosting website where I uploaded the photos, and it is on the image on the website I use to host my files. So anywhere I link the image, it says all rights reserved.
Then I checked lightroom to see if for some reason it is on the images in there. It is not.
How did someone put "all rights reserved" on my images? and what does this mean? It is not on all the images I posted on either sight, just on select ones.
Im a little frustrated that I dont know how they did it and now they have my images with "all rights reserved on it" im assuming.
Matt Laur 
, Feb 08, 2012; 12:39 p.m.
Max: You've got to throw us a bone, here, and mention what you mean when you say "posted online." Where? Within what sort of system or web site? Are you talking about stock services? Facebook? Your own hosted web site? An image sharing service like Flickr? How are you putting the images in the places where you're putting them (specifically, I mean ... are you saving local JPGs, and then using FTP ... or are you posting them using a web form someplace, or emailing them ... ?).
When you save out of Lightroom, for the web, where are you putting the OUTPUT files? What do those look like, as seen from outside of Lightroom?
Max brunell , Feb 08, 2012; 12:44 p.m.
I am selling old gear on craigslist. I listed in different cities because I travel. I host the pictures on photobucket. I upload jpgs from my desktop. I export imaged from lightroom to my desktop as jpgs.
Richard Sperry 
, Feb 08, 2012; 12:49 p.m.
Websites can edit your images when you post them. Some will resize the resolution, compression, and dimension
sizes(photo.net does this). Some will watermark your images. It's not a big deal, webmasters have been doing that for over 10 years.
If you don't like it find another host. Buy your own web space and post them there, then you won't have this issue.
Matt Laur , Feb 08, 2012; 01:01 p.m.
If the JPGs you're about to post do NOT have the watermark, then it's being added by photobucket. Your account there may have settings that allow you to change that behavior. You might also try saving a copy of one of those images off of their site, back to your local storage to see if the text you're describing is actually part of the image file, or if it's an overlay that's being show via some browser-side layering techniques, and not actually part of the file.
As Richard says, use a different hosting platform if photobucket's habits aren't to your liking. You can get hosting for just a few dollars a month, and your files will be molested only by you, period.
Craig Shearman 
, Feb 08, 2012; 02:43 p.m.
Most likely this is being added as a "service" to protect you, not an attempt by the hosting service to claim any rights to your images. It's just a warning to casual browsers that they should not be downloading or using your photos. "All rights reserved" is a little vague compared with "Copyright 2012 Max Brunell" and without an accompanying copyright notice I'm not sure what if any legal power it has. Usually wording you would see is just the copyright notice, or the notice followed by the words "All rights reserved." If it doesn't say who the rights belong to, it doesn't give the viewer much information, particularly if they want to do the right thing and track down the rights owner and offer to pay for use of an image.
Max brunell , Feb 08, 2012; 03:12 p.m.
Ok, thanks for the info. I feel quite a bit better after learning a little more about it.
Dan Marchant , Feb 08, 2012; 05:32 p.m.
Many/most image hosting services allow you to define the way images that are hosted can be used. The user can allow their images to be used freely, or only used when attribution is given or not used at all (all rights reserved). In most cases the service will default to all rights reserved. As mentioned above the notice you spotted is almost certainly just the hosting service notifying viewers that you have all rights reserved and not them trying to take ownership of your images.
