eHo.st – Be Credited For The Images You Share

The one risk of exposing one’s work online is that others might seize it up, and either begin using it without crediting you, or (worse still) present it as their own work. Both scenarios are dreadful, and while there’s no foolproof way to avoid having what one uploads being appropriated by others, there are startups that try to give creative people some sense of security. eHost is one of these. It basically enables people to retain full ownership of any image that they decide to share online.

The site stands as a community-owned hosting platform which uses a reverse image search technology (TinEye) in order to associate all that’s being shared with the ones who shared it.

The way eHost works, if one can prove he’s the author of any image, and that image receives more than 1000 views then a link to that person’s page will be created (with the new Google rel=author tag). And eHost is also putting a canonical tag anywhere the image is found, so all the link value that applies is effectively passed onto the site of the author.

While useful in all conceivable contexts, a platform like eHost can play a central role in these events in which a picture taken by an individual who happened to be at the wrong place at the right time becomes the center of a news story. The Hudson River plane landing is a good example. Granted, there might be no money involved in these cases. But the popularity is surely there. And when it comes to events in which one might even have risked his life to get a photo (such as major protests), the existence of something like eHost goes into ensuring that original authors will receive all the due credit for their bravery.

eHo.st In Their Own Words

Ethical, community owned image posting.

Some Questions About eHo.st

How widespread can this become? What might hinder its adoption?

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