copyright issue

[monkey44]

Seems most web-sites we find have digital images that a browser can simply click, copy, and use without our permission.

Some "photo-for-sale" sites have images that are somehow protected so the when a browser clicks on it, it opens a window that protects the image from copy.

Anyone know anything about that protection and how it operates???

[SoCal69]

If you are talking about saving an image by right-clicking on it, it's javascript which is added to the html code. Smarter people can easily work around it, but it adds a little more protection. I have sample code to do this. Let me know if you want it and I can provide it to you.

[evilenglishman]

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[evilenglishman]

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[SoCal69]

evilenglishman wrote:
look at this page: http://www.electricvenus.com/nature0001/image009.html

this has a right-click disable on it.

it also disables explorer's image toolbar.

it also has a 1x1 pixel transparent gif on top of the image - so if you try to drag the image to your dektop you will only get the gif :)

This image is also only usualy seen within frames so you cannot view the source.

however even with all this, you can still have the image if you go into your temporary internet files

Even with all this, it is a simple matter to find the actual url of the image, direct your browser there and copy the image.

Personally, I just post smaller and lower res images for web use. If someone wants to steal it, fine. In reality, what are they going to use it for? Wallpaper? Post it on a personal website? Actually, I wouldn't have a problem with that.

The point is, you can't stop the theft altogether, and if you come across as being hard-nosed about copyright issues by not only protecting your images with triple-redundency protection schemes and by splashing copyright restriction notices all over your site, you're going to turn people off.

My suggestion is a single, very simple copyright statement along with posting of mid-sized low resolution images.

[Jeppe]

Well, you can protect all you want, but a simple PrtScn will steal the picture anyway. Also, the picture you have been looking at will be found in your C:/Dokuments and setting/.../.../Temporary Internet files folder.

[monkey44]

Thanks guys --

Just curious more than anything. Just wondering how that protection works. Seems once you get an image into your computer, there'd always be some way to copy it...

And, yes, would post only low-res on the web anyway... people want that, they can have it and glad they like it enough to steal it ----- lol...