Our car club is considering releasing some previously unseen auto information on our site, and I was wondering what were the best ways to ensure due credit is given?
Right now, the best I have come up with is to post the info as an image, with a "watermark" of our club logo as the background, as well as a "right click disable" code.
But, I was curious if there were better ways to do this? The info is basically a list of numbers/text, so any format is acceptible. But, I'd like to ensure we are given credit...
It sounds like you are taking the right steps, unfortunately there isn't much you can do to completely prevent this so tagging it is a good idea. Another thing you may want to consider is a modrewrite in your .htaccess if you want to prevent outside linking to your images. There's lots of great info on how to do this in google by doing a simple search for htaccess prevent link
Thanks for the idea. I kinda figured I was doing about all that could be done, but even working around that is as easy as highlight/File/SaveAs. Oh well, better than nothing!
Not to mention that in Windows XP all you have to do is wave your mouse over the image and it pops a little disc that you can click to Save As. I believe that the image has to be a certain size before it will do that though, not sure what it is.
A lil trick is to make the images a background in the cell. this plays with the minds of the would be theives. They right click and their is no save image as...
Offcourse anything can be stolen, that´s why it would be nice to be able to set Threads to put a permanent watermark on every image as it is being uploaded by the user creating the post.
This way the site owner will at least get some credit when the images starts floating around the Net!
In the attachment is an upload script I put together today. It utilizes the gd2 library and features watermark and thumbnail creation. Take a look at it, it should be very easy to use the code for what you intend to do.
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