Pictures and graphics

[robot7]

Can I know which html code may be used to protect pictures and graphics from being copy from my websites users.

[redsox9]

There is no code available to protect your images from being copied. There is a javascript program you can add that disables the right-click feature, but I can get around that with no sweat (as can most anyone). If you have concerns about people swiping your image files, consider not posting the ones that give you the most concern, or lower the resolution where they prove invaluable to others.

[redsox9]

FYI, anything that you post on the web is available for all to see and steal shamelessly. There are copyright laws out there but I'm not a lawyer and I don't know the rules. Just understand that whatever you post is fair game.

[jbladeus]

There are however a couple of things you can and should do:

- Watermark your pictures before uploading them on your site. If the pictures carry your logo/copyright statement on them, then nobody can claim them as their own.
- Disable hotlinking of images from your site. At the least, it will discourage people to link directly from your site.

[felgall]

The only way to minimize the likelyhood of people stealing the images themselves is to first reduce the resolution of the image to the lowest possible that is still usable on the web and add a watermark into the image (your domain name makes a good watermark since anyone who uses it is then at least advertising your site). Any attempt to remove the watermark should then result in the resolution being such that the image is unusable. Just remember that anyone viewing your page already has a copy of the image on their computer as their browser will always download it first before displaying it.

Disabling hotlinking will prevent other sites stealing your bandwidth by displaying your images in their pages directly from your site.