Somehow I eliminated the link to the Infanview site. Can someone resent it please? Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Lamere [mailto:clifflamere@nycap.rr.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:25 PM To: COPYRIGHT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [COPYRIGHT] Protecting copyrighted photos The Irfanview discussion has been useful to me. I downloaded the program, but would prefer the availability of a smaller font. I'd like to have my name on photos, but have it be more subtle. I see nothing wrong with this discussion on this mailing list. It expands our knowledge of how to protect our copyrights. To that end, I'd like to mention a couple of other things that I have seen in the past few days since the original question was asked. A person who "borrows" a photo might make the photo considerably smaller before displaying it again. At the smaller size, it may be impossible to read your name. That is a problem, of course. A user may even cut off the copyright notice before reposting the photo. So, perhaps it is best to prevent another person from copying the photo altogether. On a webpage, if you right click on an image such as a photo, normally a box pops up that will allow the photo to be copied to your computer. I have recently noticed two websites that prevented this from happening. 1) On one website, the box would not appear for any photo on the site. I believe I only got a cirle with a slash through it (meaning something like "You can't do this."). At times, I didn't even get that. 2) On another site, a different box appeared that said that you couldn't copy the photo. I didn't investigate the first site, but I found the second site today and decided to find out how it worked. I looked at the codes and copied a JavaScript from it into a webpage I made for interested members of this list to view (revised from one I already had). I didn't like the warning that the script gave, so I rewrote it to say the following: "This photo is protected by United States and international copyright laws. Please contact the copyright holder if you would like permission to use it." An email address should be provided so that a person can do that. I learned that the full statement had to be on a single line of the script or it wouldn't work, although it appears on two lines as a popup message. I placed the message right after the </head> code. For this technique to work, a person would have to have access to the html coding of a webpage so that the script could be added. By that I mean that you must be a person who knows how to makes webpages and can view and change the codes before puting the webpage online. If your computer knowledge is limited, and you normally send photos to a website where the host's software makes all of the codes for you, you probably can't use this method. I believe you would have to upload the completed webpage yourself, including all of the html coding, but the host might be able to help you with this. So, the technology exists to protect photos from most being copied. If you can see the photo on your computer, however, there is already a copy on your computer (somewhere in the temporary cache). It's name has been changed to a number, I believe. A computer savvy person can find the photo, but I don't remember how to do that. Photos that are protected against copying probably won't be copied from the cache very often. There are probably also other means of getting around the script, but the people trying to use a photo illegally probably won't know how to do that. I believe it would be appropriate to discuss methods of protecting photos on this mailing list, so I welcome comments. Here is the URL for the webpage I made. http://grandpacliff.com/Animals/Albinos-TEST.htm Cliff Lamere ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== RootsWeb's mailing lists are filtered and attachments are removed. A virus that is distributed as an attachment will not reach you through a RootsWeb mailing list. For further information about Viruses, Trojans, Worms etc., go please to: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html. Think to keep your Anti-Virus up-to-date! ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

At 04:03 PM 1/27/2006 -0600, you wrote: > >Somehow I eliminated the link to the Infanview site. Can someone resent it >please? Thanks, John <snip> John, The url is http://www.irfanview.com/ Doyle