Re: Protecting Web Images...

There are possibilities.

Digimarc, a company in Portland, Oregon offers commercial watermarking services for images put on the Internet.
Signum Technologies in Cheltenham, Britain, offers a similar product, with a less visible watermark on the picture.
Signafy, subsidiary of the Japanese NEC, has developed a watermark that it claim can even survive in images that have been sent by fax.

Last but not least, Datamark in the UK has developed a software designed specially for picture libraries. Datamark's technique injects a unique watermark into an image WHENEVER IT IS DOWNLOADED. As a result, the watermark identifies not only who owns the copyright on a picture, but also who downloaded each copy. You can then hold the user liable if copies have be shown somewhere they should not be.

In general pictures on websites are too small, or their quality too poor, for their copyright being worth bothering with if used as a poster or leaflets etc. However, most are stolen to be used on other websites. This use is not a free use. It does represent a serious copyright infringement. Theft is theft, even on the Internet.

Best regards

Sylvie Fodor
AKG Photos/ Germany

Paul McDermott wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to stop people stealing images... is there any coding for this? Or a
> program that automatically embeds a watermark???
>
> I just want to prevent "save picture as" image theft - or if they do save
> the image, I want that image to load with a great big fat symbol across the
> image! I have seen a site that does not allow right click 'saves'...
>
> Stressed.
>
> Paul.
>
> paulmc[_at_]imeche.org.uk <mailto:paulmc[_at_]imeche.org.uk>
Received on Wed Oct 25 2000 - 13:46:01 GMT