Gary Illyes of Google was asked if someone steals your original image, makes no changes to it, and they embed it on their own site, can the original image holder benefit from that. Gary’s short answer was no, but he said it is possible you do get some benefit he said.

Here is how Gary responded on Reddit “Surprisingly hard to answer. In short, you do get some benefit from an image syndicated on other sites if your HTML landing page can become canonical.”

Here was the full question:

I wonder how much of a benefit or should you just assume there is no benefit at all. And I wonder what logic Google uses to decide when to give the original site benefit. So many questions…

Forum discussion at Reddit.