Digital BW, The Print

When I've had images published in books and magazines I haven't asked 
the publisher to overprint them with a watermark or anything else to 
prevent people putting them on a scanner and copy them. From those 
images I could make commercial size files, large enough for repro at 
roughly the same size and quality as the printed image.

 From an image on a web site, at say 600x400 pixels its easy to get a 
good enough file for web use, or for a smallish print. But anyone who 
wants to use them seriously off-line is going to contact me for a larger 
file.

I don't think its sensible to worry too much about your on-line images. 
Yes, they will be downloaded and used, but very seldom in any way that 
loses you any income. (And if your pictures are good,  having them on 
line will generate income.)  I'm happy for students to print out a copy 
for their essays and most other non-profit uses that people make of my 
stuff (a few are good enough to write and ask.)

I include this:

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

in the source of every page because I find the image tool bar a nuisance 
when viewing pages. I wouldn't dream of disabling right click, because 
it annoys some users and there are legitimate uses of it. Pages that 
disable it are far less likely to appear in my blog for example, because 
I have Movable Type on the right-click menu.

The other thing I suggest you include on every page (though I think it 
is enough to put it on the front page of the site) is a normal copyright 
notice - just like you would in a book.

\ufffd 2006, Peter Marshall

I sometimes include this in the alt text for each image as well, just as 
a reminder.

I rather feel anything beyond this is paranoia, although this has been 
whipped up rather by those wanting to market various solutions to what I 
think is really a non-problem.

Regards,

Peter

Peter Marshall
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Mark Savoia wrote:

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