WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forbid-picture-downloading-stop-free-content WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content en Sun, 19 May 2013 12:33:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 feartheseeds on "Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forbid-picture-downloading-stop-free-content#post-943228 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:07:28 +0000 feartheseeds 943228@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Keep your photos small, there's no need to upload high definition photos to your blog, the maximum size should be in the range of 800px x 600px, and less than 200k.

You should resize it before you upload the photo to your blog, or a photo hosting site.

...your photos cannot legally be used by anyone else without your permission. Use the information TT has left, and make sure your images have the watermark on them, but also look into putting something on your blog explaining to others what copyright actually means.

The 'Content Theft' link that TT left has some good ideas, but actually knowing the laws of your country / region is always a good idea...

For example, this is the law:

Canadian Copyright Act, 6.:
6. The term for which copyright shall subsist shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, be the life of the author, the remainder of the calender year in which the author dies, and a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.

American Copyright Law
§ 302. (a) In General. — Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, except as provided by the following subsections, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author and 70 years after the author’s death.

European Union Copyright Law: Directive 2006/116/EC
The Directive (93/98/EEC) harmonizes the terms of protection of copyright and neighbouring rights. The Directive establishes a total harmonization of the period of protection for each type of work and each related right in the Member States – e.g. 70 years after the death of the author for works and 50 years after the event setting the time running for neighbouring rights. Furthermore, it deals with other issues, such as the protection of previously unpublished works, of critical and scientific publications and of photographic works.

This site can help you:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/copyright/faq

And if you ever find someone using your material online without your permission, you need to know how to file a DMCA notice:

http://labnol.blogspot.ca/2007/09/dmca-notice-of-copyright-infringement.html

Good luck.

]]> timethief on "Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forbid-picture-downloading-stop-free-content#post-943188 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:34:14 +0000 timethief 943188@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @absurdoldbird
True but it is an option just as posting copyright notices is.

@aniaetbaptiste
See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/

]]> absurdoldbird on "Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forbid-picture-downloading-stop-free-content#post-943186 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:31:57 +0000 absurdoldbird 943186@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @TT - watermarking can be removed by anyone adept with a graphics program. Also it ruins the image. However, I know it has its fans.

]]> timethief on "Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forbid-picture-downloading-stop-free-content#post-943135 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:57:02 +0000 timethief 943135@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You can watermark your images to discourage thieves. Protecting your images online from theft > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2007/10/19/watermark-your-blog-images/

]]> absurdoldbird on "Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forbid-picture-downloading-stop-free-content#post-943128 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:51:21 +0000 absurdoldbird 943128@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The only way you can do that is not to show them online. Or make your whole blog private. Sorry.

]]> aniaetbaptiste on "Forbid Picture Downloading / Stop free content" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forbid-picture-downloading-stop-free-content#post-942801 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:37:51 +0000 aniaetbaptiste 942801@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hey every one,
I would like to know how we can change the setting to make our photos private. I mean that I want to keep them under my propriety and stop people to download them for free and/or without my consent.
Is there any way to do that ?
Or just to put a copyright on each picture ?

Thanks !
Blog url: http://aniaetbaptiste.wordpress.com/

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