Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent visitors to your Web site from
stealing the images you display upon it. Jim's method is easily defeated
(you can take a screen shot by pressing Print Screen and capture the image
for later use, with or without a transparent GIF).
The reality is that you cannot simultaneously allow visitors to view an
image and yet prevent them from saving a copy of the image. The only option
you have, then, is to not put anything on your site that you cannot afford
to have stolen.
In my case, I don't worry a lot, since, even if someone likes my image
enough to steal it, the resolution of the image is generally too low to
permit decent printing. An 800x600 image looks large on a screen, but only
measures about 2x3 inches when printed at a decent resolution on a good
printer. So anyone who wants a really high-resolution copy of one of my
images will still have to license it from me. I can't do much about people
who steal and use the low-resolution versions on my site, short of suing
them, which I usually cannot afford to do, even if I find out about them.
- Original Message -
From: "Colin Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 05:10
Subject: [filmscanners] Copyright of photos
The copyright of photos on the internet had quite a thrashing on this list a
few months ago, but did any solution to the problem of people stealing
copyrighted images come up? On the nyip.com website this month,
http://www.nyip.com/tips/digital_dialog0402.php Jim Barthman has come up
with what could be an answer, involving placing a transparent GIF over the
image you want to protect from downloading.
Colin Maddock
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