Pic Thieves - What to do?

Think we had that right click disable thing on the pics on site, and it worked as far as I knew, until the new Internet Explorer came out. Unfortunately, I'm rather a computer novice, and had no idea it was irritating to you; more sophisticated users, (eeek!&#33<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>)
We never had a problem until recently, (in 'fixing' the pic everyone liked to 'borrow' - the other day, all I did was mark it up with a copyright...)
Thanks again for all your help - you guys are great!
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Liz

I also didn't realize that people found it annyoing. &nbsp; Perhaps it would be better to take it off and put a watermark or logo on the pictures? &nbsp;I think I'll do that, I don't want people to avoid my site because of a stupid little script &nbsp;<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

Kara

Liz,

Unfortunately, folks don't respect the hard work of others. I can completely sympathize with you, since I have had past experiences with image theft, web content theft, et al. Fortunately, those I've contacted have been cooperative and majority of the image theft cases, it's because they liked the pictures I shot of my iguana Vega$ (iow, there was no malicious intent). I don't mind if my work (and all my work is not-for-profit) is used, just ask first and provide due credit!

If the situation persists and you wish to pursue it, you can contact the offender's ISP and/or webhosting service. I can't remember the exact conditions (all my notes are at the office), but a webhosting service can be liable for the contents of clients' sites. All your material on *your* site is not only protected by copyright laws but also the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. If you need help with helping you sort this out, let me know.

You may want to consider adding the following similar text to the footer of your page. I use this for my Herp Vet Connection site. It's a bit wordy and doesn't necessarily STOP everyone but it's there!! The first line is *key* from what I understand. I added the remaining verbage to make it explicit.

Copyright ©1999-2002 Herp Vet Connection. All Rights Reserved.
All gathered data/text, images/graphics and code, unless stated otherwise are property of Herp Vet Connection and cannot be used without written permission from the HVC Team.

If you have control over your Apache server, read:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive...dththeft.shtml (this only deters bandwidth theft, meaning the offending parties are linking to your image)

If you have PHP capability, read:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive...ctimages.shtml (this only deters bandwidth theft, meaning the offending parties are linking to your image)

These links http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa062001a.htm
http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa062701a.htm
describe methods to deter image theft, but keep in mind, that if the thief wants it, he'll find a way to get it.

FWIW, digital watermarking is useful really only if you want to show evidence of image theft.

If I come across any generic scripts, I'll let you know.

I hope the above info helps.

Desiree Wong