Copyright on websites

[Suade7]

I have posted this in law also, I just wondered how you make the content of your website (photographs) copyright?x

Any answer greatly appreciated, thank you,x

[Lil O'lady]

The dilemma is, that copyright is only as good as you enforce it. The sheer cost of trying to get righful redress for unauthorised use of your images might wipe you out in every sense.
You own the intellectual copyright of he words you write and the pictures you create. If you want to be able to prove you made these at a certain date, keep file copies on disk lableed up for this purpose.
But it might be simpler to consider what you want to achieve by putting your images online, and whether it matters if someone rips you off. If it does matter to you, then look for a different way of adding visual interest to your website.

[webdude]

Lil O'lady is basically right in what she says, but you can protect your web images and prevent people from downloading or copying them off your site.

You can also track anyone who may be linking directly to your images by looking through your sites traffic stats. If they were persistent offenders, or if they were costing you additional payments for bandwidth for example, then you could have them traced.

[Ethel]

It is impossible to prevent anyone copying images from a website - no matter what sort of protection software you use.

If you open the source you can easily overide it.

[fo3nix]

By taking a photo, it is automatically copyrighted to you. No need to register or do anything else like that.

Make sure you have the copyright notice for your photos there at all times, and let visitors know of the rights they have.

Many will reserve all rights. However, you could use a Creative Commons license and give away some rights, so that others can use your photo somewhere else, but not make any money from it, for example.

[webdude]

Not correct Ethel - there is a method of preventing image downloads, and opening the page source does not allow you to change html code.

[rojash]

In order for an image to be viewed,it obviously MUST be downloaded. There are many ways to make it difficult to save the image, but all of those methods can be circumvented, so Ethel is (as usual) correct when she says that it's impossible to prevent anyone copying images from a web site.

[WoWo]

Ethel is correct, it is impossible to fully stop somebody downloading an image which is displayed on a web page. Point me in the direction of on of these "undownloadable" images please webdude and I will copy it on to my own web server to demonstrate.

You can make it a little more difficult but it's not impossible (if it were the browser wouldn't be able to display it in the first place).

[Suade7]

Thank you all so much,xx