How Your Image Rights Protect Your Likeness Online
Image rights are the property rights that an individual has for his or her image and other characteristics associated with their personality.
How Your Image Rights Protect You
Your image rights are considered a property right as opposed to personal freedom. The validity of that right can survive the death of an individual. One of the rights is the right of publicity. In other words, you have a right to keep your image and likeness from being commercially exploited without compensation.
No one has the right to represent ones’ personality or image rights without permission from the person being exploited. Everyone has the right to control how his or her “persona” is commercialized y third parties.
There are many ways that image rights can be used to generate profitable revenue for third parties especially when it comes to sports players, celebrities, and politicians. Many of these professionals have benefited financially by consenting to the use of their image rights by a third party in a legal contract.
All is well in those types of situations, but often people have their image rights used and abused without their consent or even their knowledge. Different countries have various laws regarding this issue, but the important thing for you to know is that you own your image rights and you have the right to privacy and not being exploited without your consent.
Although it is difficult to prevent, there are ways to protect yourself. Berify is the perfect service for this issue. Berify uses cutting-edge technology to search any image you have to see where is it being used. We will give you all results of your images that are exact and similar so that you are aware of where your pictures are on social media.
At that point, you can decide whether or not you want to take action against the third party using your image rights without your consent. You do have the power and legal backing to make them cease and desist from using your images or you may decide that you want to benefit financially and you have ways to do that as well.
The first step is to investigate if and where your image rights are being exploited on the internet or being used in a way that you would frown upon by doing a reverse image search here:
Berify is here to assist you with whatever you need. Just upload your image(s), and Berify will alert you when it finds a match.
Also, don’t forget to check out our reverse image search API if you want to integrate it with your service: