Comments on: 5 Things Photographers Can Do to Protect Their Images Online

By: Protect Yourself From Photo Thieves – Post Blog

Protect Yourself From Photo Thieves – Post Blog — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:02:44 +0000

[...] friends at Photoshelter have a great article about protecting your photos online. Check it out for advice on copyrighting your images and prosecuting unauthorized use of [...]

By: ART LINKS | ARTnudes Network – Figure Models

ART LINKS | ARTnudes Network – Figure Models — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:00:47 +0000

[...] Some tips on protecting your images online. [...]

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:55:58 +0000

Now the best form to protect is used the aplication Prot-On

With Prot-On protect your pictures and decide and track at any moment who, how and when their content is accessed

http://en.prot-on.com

By: edie raye

edie raye — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:04:20 +0000

i would think the image sharing sites would be EXCELLENT, FREE advertising for anyones’ work. van goghs’ starry night has been seen by billions and rarely in the louvre. if people fall in love with your work why would you not want them to share it? i am naive but curious why would you put something on the internet knowing that “when it is out there it is out there” – ask paris hilton. if i don’t charge to share the image and thus make no profit where would the damage be? i see it as showing a magazine picture to the guy sitting next to me on the train. one last question would be about quotes on pictures – who has the copyright – the photographer or aristotle who he is quoting and is long dead – pretty sure he didnt consent to having his words used so who has the copyright when you print on the image? also you took the picture of a tree (tree belongs to God) with a camera (made by canon) and put it on paper made by kodak – now what part of this work is really yours? BE GLAD SOMEONE WANTS TO LOOK AT IT AND SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD. now…can i copyright what i just wrote or is it true they are the same 26 letters you use in a different combination and therefore you would be infringing my “writing?”
what is art anyhow ever borrow a cd and listen – did you send money to the artist hmmm i must think on this. can thoughts be stolen??? ask a schizophrenic :).

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:34:40 +0000

Firstly I’d like to say good article. Thanks for sharing all that information Michelle, apart from one point I think it’s great.

I know this article is old, but for anybody who is setting up a website and stumbles across it like me I think I need to point out a major problem I have with one of the points.

If you don’t already know it, this point is number 4. Disabling right-click is one of the worst things you can do to your website, especially in this day and age where a lot of people use extensions and gestures and rely on right clicking. Not only does it make your site less accessible it also looks unprofessional. And the worse part, it doesn’t even protect your photos! Anybody can just hit the print screen button on their keyboard and in a single press have your picture copied to their clipboard. Or they can drag the picture into the address bar and the right click and copy it. If you don’t want people to copy the picture either display it with flash or use javascript to simply disable copying of the photo.

It annoys me when someone prevents me from using right click. To be honest it annoyed so many people that I’m not sure if the feature is still even supported in most browsers, I know there are options and extensions to stop websites from imposing these restrictions.

So in summary, follow the steps above but do not annoy your user by imposing a block on the right click and pretending you’ve “locked your front door”.

By: Project Web Gallery « Madhvee's OCA Learning Log

Project Web Gallery « Madhvee's OCA Learning Log — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:23:57 +0000

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By: Find copyright violations of your pictures with src-img bookmarklet | dvafoto

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:11:11 +0000

[...] Now, once you’ve found an infringement, you’ve got to figure out what to do about it. Photo Attorney Carolyn Wright offers both a list of ideas of what to do once your work has been infringed, and, on the PhotoShelter blog, ways you can protect your images from infringement online. [...]

By: Graham P

Graham P — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:55:14 +0000

Just wondering how a non US citizen (UK) stands on registration of copyright if for example a US publication used one of my images without my permission and I was looking at a legal challenge to the use of such image??

By: Eric Leslie

Eric Leslie — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:57:16 +0000

It was nice to read on this subject from a more legal angle. I didn’t know you could protect yourself from statutory damages by filing for copyright. Can this strategy be applied to images that are licensed CC?