Protecting artwork on the internet

[coachdan]

I have been asked to design a website for a local artist that wants to have an online art gallery. He is very concerned with his artwork being stolen from the site. I have advised him that there is no way to stop it 100%. Has anyone done a similar project and what are the best practices that may discourage someone from stealing his artwork?

coachdan32

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[cLFlaVA]

put a big ugly caption over each image, the way

http://www.corbis.com

does it.

while you can hinder some internet fools from right-clicking your images, you won't hinder me, or many people. but you already know that - you want to stop who you can.

do a search for mouseclick "disabling", you should find many resources.

*cLFlaVA
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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

As you've said, you cannot stop people from stealing images from websites.

You can stop people right-clicking, which will stop the opportune right-click-save-as "thief", but nothing will stop the old "Print Screen" trick.

He's far better off not worrying about it. If he really wants to, using a digital watermark (

http://www.digimarc.com)

might be the way to go - that way, any "stolen" images will easily be traceable... and some image editing programs (PSP, Photoshop, etc) will not let them be edited.

Hope this helps,
Dan


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[cLFlaVA]

great minds...

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[trollacious]

Another website that uses the watermark is ayoink.com.

Lee

 

[cLFlaVA]

lol...

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[BabyJeffy]

great minds...

... and fools seldom differ!

"What-choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?!"

Jeff

 

[Foamcow]

What does he think people will do with his art? What is it that he is worried about?
Seriously, any images on a website are not going to be anywhere near the resolution needed to produce a half decent print.

Why not take the fact that people will download the images and make it a positive? After all, if he slaps his name/web address on each image he may get some publicity and sales from it!



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[coachdan]

Thanks for the help. My advice will be for him to use a watermark if it will make him feel more comfortable. Anything else will not slow down anyone and may adversly affect his visitors experience.

coachdan32

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