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Protection for Online Images
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I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. With Rgds, BJ |
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"BJ" wrote in message ps.com... Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. With Rgds, BJ Hi Plagerism is the most sincere form of flattery. Roy G |
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"BJ" wrote in message ps.com... Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. With Rgds, BJ Unless you intend to pay expensive lawyers to sue in distant jurisdictions for copyright violations, you just may be wasting your time with Digimark. I operate several web sites, and I've had good results with just posting low-resolution, smaller-sized images. They have no value as prints, and even if one of them ends up pirated on someone else's web site, the loss to me is minimal. Life is too short to spend it pursuing copyright violators--unless the compromised images have some unique value. Much as I hate to say this, everybody is lifting stuff from everybody these days. If the recording industry, with all its' financial and legal resources, is having trouble plugging the leaks, how much less can you or I succeed? |
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In article om,
"BJ" wrote: Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. I think you will find that 99.9% of the people 'stealing' your one-in-a-lifetime-shot wants it because its a great image and use it either as wallpaper or screensaver. If you want to display pictures online use 800x600 pixels or maybe 1024x768 at 72 ppi, maximum compression. If they're lucky, these 'thieves' should be able to make a decent postcard or smaller. If you don't want your pictures copied, don't post. |
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http://www.digimarc.com/tech/dwm.asp also check out their Steganography
page. Both the Digimarc and visible logos or circled "C" can be removed easily by the malicious scum-wads some additional info about watermarking -- http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0105/heller.htm -- Bing Bang Boom Voila Done! "BJ" wrote in message ps.com... Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. With Rgds, BJ |
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In article om, BJ
wrote: Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. Well, don't upload them in a size/resolution that is worthwhile ripping off. If you upload samples in medium resolution (40-60%) .jpgs at 72 dpi (screen resolution) at no more than 320x480, it's unlikely that they will be useful to very many people for rip-off purposes, yet they will still be good enough for online viewing. Very few online useages require high-resolution. -- You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard |
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Suddenly, without warning, Ken Lucke exclaimed (04-Jan-07 10:05 AM):
In article om, BJ wrote: Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. Well, don't upload them in a size/resolution that is worthwhile ripping off. If you upload samples in medium resolution (40-60%) .jpgs at 72 dpi (screen resolution) at no more than 320x480, it's unlikely that they will be useful to very many people for rip-off purposes, yet they will still be good enough for online viewing. Very few online useages require high-resolution. I do mine at 640x480, many people have bigger screen/resolutions these days, and 320x480 is just too small - it's pretty much thumbnail size on my 1600x1200 screen. I just stick a slightly obnoxious copyright at the bottom of all my posted pictures. Sure, somebody can crop or photoshop it off, but why bother for something that might make a decent 4x6, but won't go any bigger than that gracefully? jmc |
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BJ wrote:
Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. With Rgds, BJ I'm in a similar situation - I am a newbie Photographer and post my pictures online. Some are access protected (these are more personal in nature of family and friends) and some are not (no people - usually). I have thought of doing something to be able to track my pictures (something like a homing device if you will). But I don't think the technology exists to do what I want to do. Also, the legal route seems quite complicated / expensive (since my pictures don't generate any money). So, I've decided to watermark my pictures. The fact that I am not very good helped with this decision. I doubt anyone would find my work worth all the trouble. -- manzoor - http://flickr.com/photos/smriti -- http://ChobiSmriti.BlogSpot.com/ - |
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If you don't want your images copies don't put them on the web. Anything you
can do to stop it from happening can easily be circumvented. Usually by pressing the print screen button, using a screen capture program, or pulling it out of your web browsers cache. If you want to keep what they can do with to a minimum make the images small, add a ghosted (c) copyright symbol over the top (just light enough to see without messing up the picture too bad) and then place a copyright notice below the image. Beyond that get on with life. ljc "Manzoorul Hassan" wrote in message ps.com... BJ wrote: Hi, I am new for online albums. I have few questions about protection of images: 1. Is there any free service comparable to Digimarc? 2. If I will embed some watermark on images, will I be able to track who all are using it (at least online)? 3. Any other methods of copyright protection beside Watermark. Any links will help. Thanks in advance. With Rgds, BJ I'm in a similar situation - I am a newbie Photographer and post my pictures online. Some are access protected (these are more personal in nature of family and friends) and some are not (no people - usually). I have thought of doing something to be able to track my pictures (something like a homing device if you will). But I don't think the technology exists to do what I want to do. Also, the legal route seems quite complicated / expensive (since my pictures don't generate any money). So, I've decided to watermark my pictures. The fact that I am not very good helped with this decision. I doubt anyone would find my work worth all the trouble. -- manzoor - http://flickr.com/photos/smriti -- http://ChobiSmriti.BlogSpot.com/ - |
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