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Q. How can I protect my code/images from being stolen?
How do I disable Right-Click?
A. Bad news, there are not any 100% surefire methods
to protect anything you've uploaded to the web. Below are some helpful
hints and truths on this very popular topic.
What Can and Can't Be Done to Protect Your Stuff- Part One
Author: turtle
Introduction
It is bound to happen sooner or later.... You're surfing around
the Internet and WHAMO... there is one
of your images on someone else's web page!!! What can you do?.....
What do you do?.... Below I will list the things that you SHOULD
DO so that you can identify your stuff when you find it used on
another website.
Text and Source Code Protection
What you can do to protect the Text and HTML of your
pages:
- Place a META copyright
tag in the HEAD of ALL web pages you write. View source to
see this page's copyright. This will identify you as the owner
of the content.
- Place a copyright notice on all of your web pages. It should
read Copyright © 2001 YourName Here, All Rights
Reserved. Not necessary for copyright protection but a
sound practice.
- Place a link to a
(popup) Legal Notice page near your copyright information
on the bottom of every page.
- Use
the status bar. Place a Copyright Notice as the default status
bar message on all pages. See the status bar message on this page
for an example.
- Use a JavaScript to disable the browser's right-click feature
and bring up a Copyright notice instead. This method is not
recommended for many reasons. See the Additional
References and Resources section for more information.
- Register EVERYTHING you place online with the US Copyright Office
in Washington DC. This is not necessary to have copyright protection
but to receive punitive damages & attorneys fees you must
register your stuff with Uncle Sam. See the Additional
References and Resources section for more information.
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Image Protection
What you can do with Images
- Place a visual
Copyright notice on ALL of the images you use on your web
site.
- You can embed your Copyright information directly within a jpg
or gif by using a
Digital Watermarking program.
- Placing your image
within a table as a background with a clear gif over it will
make it impossible to save the displayed image using the right-click
> Save Picture As... function.
- Use a JavaScript to disable right click and show your Copyright
instead of the shortcut menu. This method is not
recommended for many reasons. See the Additional
References and Resources section for more information about
this technique.
- Use VERY expensive software that displays but completely stops
the downloading of images to the visitors browser. Many of these
3rd party image protectors require that the site visitor download
and install a special viewer. See the Additional
References and Resources section for more information.
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