Advice on privacy...

At the end of last week I got a comment on one of my posts (from a long time ago) telling me that someone on Twi.tter was using pictures of B and leading everyone to believe it was her child.  This person gave me 2 links.  

I nearly fainted.  

Then I looked at the accounts of these 2 people.  One is a girl and the other is a boy...supposedly.  They are engaged...supposedly.  They have a child and she is pregnant with twins...supposedly.  I say supposedly because, in my opinion, most or all of the pictures on these accounts are stolen.  They are all cropped weird and you can tell people have been cut out of them.  For example, there is a maternity picture where the older child and male are cropped out...it just looks funny.  In one picture she looks very dark skinned with dark hair and in her maternity pictures she has very light skin with blonde hair.  She also uses multiple different babies saying that is her older daughter (including pictures of MY child).  

There are pictures of B on both accounts and "she" cropped out my watermark.

At first, the mama bear in me started raging.  I looked through every single tw.eet these 2 accounts had.  How dare they steal pictures of my child?  Who is this person acting like this is their child...again, HOW DARE THEY???  Who is the person that commented to tell me?  How did they know?  Their blogger profile had just been created and had 2 views...both me.  I stayed up for hours thinking about what I could do.  

I am not on Twi.tter and I know absolutely nothing about it.  I do know that this person posted these pics of B last November and none since then.  There are quite a few of her and they are all from only one of my posts...no other pictures from any other post have been posted on this account of Blakely.  The accounts do have pictures of other babies (I am sure stolen) and "she" says they are her daughter as well.  

The fact that they are from only one post makes me think "she" just found my post through a  Go.ogle search, downloaded the pics and then moved on.  What do y'all think?  Both accounts still actively tw.eet but nothing again of B.  

I am torn about what to do about this entire situation.  

In the beginning I was pissed.  I almost took my blog down.  I wanted to call the fucking owner or whatever of Twit.ter.  I nearly called my cop friend.  HA!  My husband was a bit more chill about it.  He says it was just a picture.  It wasn't like she was pretending B was her daughter and stealing all of her pics.  (Side note....if she was stealing only pictures of Blakely, I am pretty sure he would have flipped.  He would probably still be hunting this person down.  He has connections!)  She was pretending she had a daughter and stealing a bunch of baby pics to fake it...she did a terrible job of it by the way.  I think anyone who follows her should be able to tell that it isn't the same child!  He is in favor of me watermarking all of her pictures though.  

So what to do?  I am not versed in all things blog.  I am not sure if I need a copyright and I still don't know if that would stop people from taking my pictures.  I looked into it but that is mostly for your content...which doesn't bring out my mama bear side.  Just the pictures...

I do use a watermark...sometimes.  I should do better.  From most of my research since this happened that is the best thing you can do.  I have been going back and putting the watermark across her face in every single picture.  That way if someone does take it then it can't be cropped out or hidden. 

I love blogging and I want to be able to do it and protect Blakely as well.  I don't care if people take MY picture.  I am able to make that decision for myself.  I do care, however, if people steal pictures of her and use them.  Blakely is not able to make the decision as to whether she wants to put her face on the internet.  I am making that decision for her.  As her mother, I want to do the safest thing for her.  I want to protect her.  That is my job.  

So, advice?  Is a watermark the best thing?  How do you recommend doing that?  I have an app on my Mac but I don't really like it.  I want something that will watermark an entire folder of photos but then I can manipulate each picture so it is over her face.  I don't have Photos.hop but I am willing to get it.  

Should I get a copyright for my blog?  Do you have one?  Is it easy to get?  

Have any of you ever had this experience?  Did you get mean to a bitch on Twit.ter like I want to?  Did you call your cop friend?  ;)  Seriously though...help!  I want to feel comfortable blogging.  I will do whatever it takes to make it that way.