After 4 months of work, we are proud to present the first Myows iOs app.

The Myows iOs app is free, and makes it easy to send pictures from your Camera Roll to your Myows account.

Add a title and description, apply a license, choose if you want your shot to appear on your Myows photographer website and even set a price to sell your images!

Start managing your copyright with Myows’ iOs app, it’s free for up to 100 files uploaded.

In 2012, Getty Images changed its iconic watermark. Where previously it had simply overlayed its logo onto its public-facing images, it switched to using a large, shaded box that contained both a URL where the image could be found and information about the photographer. (more…)

Last week, rapper and designer Ariza Obey filed a lawsuit against rapper The Game over allegations that the cover of The Game’s latest single, Ryda, used a photograph from his Instagram account.

According to Obey, he posted a photograph entitled Ride or Die, on Instagram in September of 2014. The photograph featured himself and a woman in an embrace pointing guns over each other’s shoulders. Though Obey says the image was taken by a local photographer, the copyright was assigned to him through an agreement with the photographer.

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This copyright 101 article was originally a guest post I’d written for my friends at wixel a couple of years ago. They’ve since redesigned their website and I didn’t want it to get completely forgotten as I believe it provides an easy way for designers and photographers to understand Copyright.

As a digital creative, your days are too short to be slowed down by legal fluff and the fine-print. Yet Copyright is probably your main source of income and therefore you should know how it works, make sure yours is safe and understand why should care. (more…)

I always start pitching investors by telling the story of how the Myows idea came to life: In 2008 I was working as a photographer and wanted to start my own imagebank with 20 000 lifestyle images I’d taken. I was already using Freshbooks for invoicing and BaseCamp for project management, yet I couldn’t find an online solution that would help me protect my copyright in an easy way, so I decided to create one to meet my needs: I called it Myows and with the help of 3 partners we launched to great acclaim in 2009.

Does Myows work to protect copyright?

The answer is yes, and please take a minute to read this testimonial from a Myows user, a Professional Nature Photographer that successfully got infringing images removed from Corbis and other websites by using our solution:

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Testimonial from Marcus Armani of Armani Nature Photography:

I would like to thank the staff at MYows.com, I have had several Images stolen from my personal website and posted on various photography sites , for sale, for wallpaper, for display claiming they were the photographer and copyright holder.

I did not know what to do and at a point it seemed hopeless. I then came across the MYows website, A site in which I have never seen before so I thought I would try it out. what they do is amazing and so very easy, you only need to upload your original image to the site, From then on your work is safe!

I had my first copyright case against Corbis images , they had one of my photos on their site for sale, I went to MYows website where I only had to click on the photo in question open a case and click send a Cease and Desist order which was pre made from the information I entered when uploading the photo, within 48 hours I received an email from Corbis Images a company who previously had ignored my emails phone calls etc.. This email stated that they would remove my photo and in a few hours it was off their site! (more…)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard of a nasty bug in Secure connections (SSL) called Heartbleed. This is no laughing matter and today we wish to reassure our users that their files and copyrights are safe with Myows.
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In an article published today, Mashable reports that Facebook is being sued for copyright infringement by a company called Timelines.

From the start the article doesn’t make sense. The journalist writes “Facebook was sued in 2011 for copyright infringement by Timelines, Inc (…) Facebook later counter-sued Timeslines, Inc., arguing Timelines, Inc.’s trademarks weren’t distinct enough to warrant protection and should be canceled.”
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It is tempting to save a buck by stealing an image you find off Google – we’ve all done it – but doing so can have serious consequences. (more…)

In the era of content marketing, protecting your Intellectual Property is vital. And this is why a new Investment Magazine focusing on Central America contacted us.
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If not, why not? You could save yourself a shed load of hassle down the line if you do.

If you’re an artist, web designer, writer, or blogger (or pretty much anyone else working in the creative field), you’re likely to be fully aware of the benefits of copyright. Generally it protects what is termed as an “original work of authorship” – roughly translated as including books, poems, songs, web pages, and other original works. (more…)