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I would hate to have to add a meta tag for each services...

  meta name="googlebot" content="noimageindex"
  meta name="facebook" content="nolike"
  meta name="tumblr" content="noreblog"
  meta name="twitter" content="noretweet"
  ...

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That's the first thing I thought of when reading the article.

You can't expect each website owner to know every online service available on the web!

What's a better way to deal with this then? Embedding copyright notices into your images? Having a COPYRIGHT.TXT file?

> What's a better way to deal with this then?

Having lots of fanged, slavering lawyers straining at their leashes, ready to be turned loose. It works for Disney:-)

Some extension of the ideas in robots.txt could help.

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