Cliff, Your postings of "Test" are great and very well done. As a long time HTML writer and web host, I opened your source code and copied the java code applet. It's almost indentical to one I have used to disable the right click for copying some photos. Most of my photos are historical and free for copying by anyone, but some I have taken myself are reserved for my family albums. I like your use and text much better, and will include an email in the newer ones. Thanks, Doyle Chambers At 04:25 PM 1/27/2006 -0500, you wrote: > >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 >