HTML & Dreamweaver> How to protect images/text from copy & pasting and printing by user?

Question

I am a total web design newbie, so please be gentle. :)

I am an artist and designing my first web site.
My first question is how to protect my images and/or text from being copied & pasted, printed or reproduced in anyway by the user. ? I don't want to compromise the detail of images on a web page (this is very important because of the type of work I do), but I don't want some scoundrel stealing my images either.

Please, include HTML code, etc. with answer if possible.
I am using Dreamweaver CS3.

Thanks!

Answer 1

you can protect your images from using a No right click script...but that only works on IE and Maybe Opera Browser...and you can disable the Page print with a page print code like this



No Right Click Script.....................................







You can paste the script anywhere on your page. I placed it at the end of the source code just before the tag to keep it out of the way. You'll appreciate that when you want to edit the page.



Disable Print Page Script............................

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HaHaHa, thought you could print my page didn't ya?

how ever you cant stop it...people can just take a print screen of your website paste it into paint and then print it ....or they will just copy your text into note pad...if they use fire fox they can right click on any image even if you have HTML disable right click code on your website...the only thing you can do with your images is to place a water mark on top so it becomes useless to the user...but even then if they know how to use photoshop they can edit that out...sorry but you can never stop anyone from copying something from your website..im learning web design myself if you want advice or feel like teaming up to help each other out then email at [e-mail]



no right click for images.....................................







Disable Copy and Paste

Add the following html code to your BODY tag:

Here is how your BODY tag may look once implimented:.........................







sorry going off topic here but thought you might like this simple script LCD Clock for your web page



LCD Clock



Step 1: Insert the below style sheet into the HEAD section of your page:







Step 2: Having done this, add the below script where you wish the clock to appear on your page:

Answer 2

No, this isn't really possible. Even if you managed to prevent right clicking on a photo, copying it to my hard drive is easy to do with the Snipping Tool on Win 7, and with older machines, hitting Print Screen copies the entire screen, and simple Paint can be used to trim out the page itself. As for text, it can be manually typed as a copy of your web page, or, one can simply view the source code (from the menu on the browser itself) to copy the text from there, and easily find where in that source code the desired text is, by using Ctrl + F, then search the source for a small portion of the text. In the end, if some one is determined to copy your stuff, you can't stop them. Though, if you can find the person who did it, you may have other options available.

Answer 3

You can't.



Those stop right click and stop print scripts are useless. The only people that will stop is complete noobs. DO NOT depend on them to protect your work.



Take a look at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/noright2.htm and try and try and right click on those images. Oops, here they are - http://brisray.com/test/ddphoto1.jpg and http://brisray.com/test/ddphoto2.jpg - That took less than a minute, including uploading them to my own server. Those files are not screen prints of any type. They are copies of the image files from Dynamic Drive's servers.



The best way is to watermark your images in some way. The usual way is to add your website URL in one of the corners.



A copyright warning notice on the page also makes people stop and think before copying web pages.

Answer 4

Place this into the tags of your code and it'll keep them from copying your text. I don't know about images, though.

Answer 5

You can do your best to "deter" somebody, but you simply cannot "stop" them. It's just not worth the effort. Just understand that once you post something, it's fair game. I know it doesn't seem right, but it's just the way it is.

Answer 6

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