[audacity10]

I recently built a website and fine-tuned it to a respectable online portfolio.

My question I put to you fellow artists is how can I protect my work? I've heard that there is a way to change the 'right click mouse button-Save as' menu, so a message will pop up instead. How is this possible?

Will this drive people away from my Website?

techno-art.co.uk

[jome]

I wouldn't worry that much about your work being stolen. After all, you've got the evidence to show in case there's actually money being made off, right? And the chance is greater that someone would like to save an image for inspiration, instead of exploitation.
The thing that blocks this is a bit of Javascript I believe. An example of it is on this page: anti rightclick
Of course, if I'd really wanted to have the image, I'd take a screenshot with SnagIt or something. And another remark is that I have never encountered it on good looking, professional websites, only on personal webpages. Looking at your page, I feel it wouldn't fit in.

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[audacity10]

Hi Jome,

I truly appreciate your reply and thankyou for the compliment. I understand the angle you're coming from and you obviously know what you're talking about so I'll take the advice. Thanks.

[kantide]

"I've heard that there is a way to change the 'right click mouse button-Save as' menu, so a message will pop up instead. How is this possible?"

I absolutely hate pages that do that. Not only is it just plain annoying (like jome said, I like to save pics for inspiration), it's really easy to get around. All you have to do is right click and hold down the button on the picture, and when the "can't right click" screen comes up, hit the keyboard key "enter," let go of the mouse button, and the menu to save comes up.

[audacity10]

Well that decides it.

[lalPOOO]

the thing is, the people you'd be trying to stop are generaly fairly stupid. If they were smart, they wouldn't try to steal your images!
but if there is anywhere you can get html for the anti right click javascript, I'd like to know where.

[Kaete]

Pleeeeease, for the love of Pete do not use the no-right-click option. Believe it or not, a lot of people like using right-click to navigate. (I'm on a slow connection here at home, so I usually right-click to open a new window and let that load in the back while I'm looking at the first window.)

Look, if somone *really* wants your picture, they're going to get it. If you're that paranoid about it, simply don't put it on the internet.

Just please, please don't use that javascripted abomination.

[gekitsu]

that javascript thing in fact does not work the way it should.
you can override the window saying "no right clicks please" simply by holding down the right mouse button and hitting space that the window disappears.

so, it doesn't protect your images and it annoys everyone who is a right-click surfer (like me)

[Ben Barker]

If I can see the image on my screen, I can save it to my hard drive. There's nothing you can do to get around it. Right click scripts only annoy. If you are going to put a right click script on your website you might as well go the whole hog and set up comet cursors, X11 camera pop ups, an animated GIF background, and looping MIDI files of the theme song from Cheers.

Don't put anything on the net you don't want to get spread around.

Unfortunately, and fortunately, that's the way it is. Everything you make has a copyright the instant you make it. It's the only protection you have.

Here is a good link about copyrights, and what they can and cannot do, how they work, etc. http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

There's also the government page, of course, but it's 20000 pages long and reads like a mortgage contract.

[Revility]

I do allot of webdesign work and trust me, that no right click java is sooo easy to over ride. you can just high light the image and hit control c, or control s, save page as, or if u keep hitting the right mouse button fast enough, it will over ride it, and the other ways listed in previuos replies. Some pc's, and browsers don't even support allot of java and there fore it would be totally useless.

I find the best thing you can do is on the actual picture its self put a copyright logo, your name and your website address and the year. Remember you have a God given copy right over your material as soon as you make it, the same deal with trade marks. Its just not registered. Usually by putting copyright material on the image will discorage people from stealing it. That and if things got really bad, you'll have proof that its your work if things get legal.