August 6th, 2009 at 12:40pm
Under copyright protection
It is simply not possible to prevent someone from copying your website images. If someone is skilled and determined there’s no way to stop them from abusing your website and your content. But there’s still light in the end of the tunnel. You can use some semi-sophisticated techniques to limit the amount of people that can copy your website’s images. Keep reading.
The first method I recommend is called digital image watermarking. A watermark can be visible or can be invisibly embedded into the pixels of an image. There are companies like Digimarc offering digital watermarking services and providing a digital identity for any media object, thus protecting it from stealing. But these systems are not fool proof, they have serious weaknesses and they are costly.
Another method would be to hide your original image behind a transparent GIF using CSS style sheets. If someone right clicks the image and selects to save it, it will only save the transparent GIF, not the original image. Similarly, you can insert the image as a table background. But in both cases a visitor can always make use of the -PrtScrn- button to copy anything from your website.
Embedding the images in Flash files is another popular method. Now, this is a neat method to use, it will make it difficult for a thief to steal your work. You cannot right click and copy the image if it’s embedded in a flash file. But the flash file is already on your hard drive (cache). You can use any flash de-compiler software to easily grab any contents from a flash executable file. And of course you can simply use the -PrtScn- button to take snapshots.You see, the truth is that there’s nothing you can do to prevent a thief from stealing your content.
Fortunately there are services like
Copyscape that monitor your website’s activity and detect potential thieves. You can also have a look at this
copyright protection guide written by a former federal prosecutor and learn about the same legal techniques that the top internet attorneys and big law firms use.
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By Copyright Law
July 25th, 2009 at 12:35pm
Under copyright act
Writing informational articles for the Web is a good way to establish oneself as an authority on any topic. Creating articles is also very effective in generating traffic for your website. However, deceitful authors can plagiarize your work (with very little effort). Read on for advice and tips to cope with copyright violations.
A few lazy individuals have plagiarized a number of my articles for their blogs and websites. These sloths deliberately copied my hard work, verbatim, without my biography and Internet links. So far, dishonest webmasters with Google adSense blogs or directories have committed all violations.
I decided to nose around until I pinpointed contact information for the violators. However, these troublemakers are usually adept at concealing e-mail addresses and configuring blogs so that nobody is able to post comments.
As a result, I contacted Google. Google has zero tolerance for copyright infringements. Such violations reflect poorly on their corporate image, and they respond rapidly to legitimate complaints. Performing a search for: ‘digital millennium copyright act google.com’ will locate a page with full instructions and company contact information. The page also displays links to appropriate websites with more particulars about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
My next step was to contact the hosting company for each of the violators. It is often difficult to unearth a valid e-mail address. You can try generic addresses like abuse@’hostingwebsite’, info@’hostingwebsite’, webmaster@’hostingwebsite’, etc. You may have to visit the webhost online and complete a support request. Alternatively, you may need to spend some time on the telephone.
My final action was to type out a document similar to the one below. I then faxed it to Google and the hosting companies, while I continued to monitor the violating websites. In some cases, pirated content would disappear for a few days, and then the bootlegged articles would reappear.— BEGIN SAMPLE COPYRIGHT VIOLATION DOCUMENT —
All of the articles on the following pages are a violation of my intellectual copyright and the copyright of the article directory from which they were copied:
(Link to first web page)
(Link to second web page)
(Link to third web page), etc.
The articles were copied from here:
(Link to author summary webpage at article directory from which articles were plagiarized)
The copied text blatantly violates the publisher’s terms of service, clearly linked to on the above page:
(Link to the article directory’s terms of service page)
Every article is a direct copy and paste of my work from the above article directory, without the applicable copyright notice and links to my site or to the article directory, as required in their terms of service.
I hereby avow, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner.
Type your name here.
Sign here.— END SAMPLE COPYRIGHT VIOLATION DOCUMENT —
You may have to change the wording of the document to match whatever is appropriate for your situation. It is important to provide complete contact information: your postal/email addresses and fax/cell/telephone numbers.
Remember to include a copyright notice with each of your articles, similar to the one below. Let’s all work together to transform the Net into an honest environment; let’s clear out the vermin who prey on the intellectual property of others.
(c)Copyright Kathy Steinemann: This article is free to publish only if this copyright notice, the byline, and the author’s note below (with active links) are included.
Kathy is an author and webmaster who writes
articles on many topics for 1st Rate Articles, travel
articles for 111 Travel Directory, and foreign language
articles, as well as German short stories and poetry, for A-Language-Guide.
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By Copyright Law
July 19th, 2009 at 04:23pm
Under copyright act
Hi, I’m aware templates for this are on Google and other places. What I need to do though is have one made up for a specific situation. All that’s happened is that some friends of mine have had their personal pictures posted, without their authority on a website which is ridiculing all of us.
The webhosts have (for all our efforts) been completely useless at helping, now to the point of stubbornly saying they’re not taking any of these stolen pictures down.
I need to make a valid DMCA tailored for reporting stolen pictures, to send to this webhost, in the hopes they finally comply. 3 of my friends claim they own the original copies of their stolen pictures.
My plan is to send all of these friends the laid out template for this DMCA, for them to individually fax to this webhost.
Unfortunately none of us can afford a lawyer (individually), which is why I’ve come here to ask for any help out there.
Please can anyone help?
By Copyright Law Enquirer
July 18th, 2009 at 10:25pm
Under music copyright
Digital Music copyright? If you had an MP3 that was downloaded it is illegal yes, ok so If the MP3 stream was reversed so that song played backwards. Is it still illegal?. At what point does the file become illegal. Surely the same goes if the MP3 was encrypted into a file, would it be illegal still because it is just a jumble of 0’s and 1’s until it gets decrypted.
Just a thought!
By Copyright Law Enquirer
July 18th, 2009 at 04:24am
Under copyright act
Hi
Can you please give me a simplified version of the DMCA.
What is illegal and what is legal with sharing music files in particular.
By Copyright Law Enquirer
July 17th, 2009 at 10:26am
Under copyright act
what is it and what is it for?
By Copyright Law Enquirer
July 17th, 2009 at 10:26am
Under copyright act
what is it and what is it for?
By Copyright Law Enquirer
July 15th, 2009 at 04:23pm
Under copyright act
Can someone explain to me in layman’s terms what this act actually means?
By Copyright Law Enquirer
July 14th, 2009 at 04:23pm
Under copyright act
In 1998 Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This legislation had an impact on Internet Service Providers. It affected them in the following way:
1. it created a “safe harbor” protecting them from certain copyright infringement claims.
2. it created a “safe harbor” protecting them from prosecution under federal child pornography statutes.
3. it expanded the “fair use” privileges available to Internet Service Providers.
4. it made certain forms of encryption illegal, because they violated the public’s rights under the “fair use” rule.
By Copyright Law Enquirer
July 13th, 2009 at 10:26am
Under copyright act
I know that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act US Code Title 17, Chapter 5, limits an ISP’s liability for copyright infringement based on the actions of users and etc…does this protection also extend to possible trademark infringement? I am briefing a case for my business law class where the plaintiff is suing another company for trademark infringement, and is including the defendants web hosting company for what I guess is contributing to trademark infringement. From what I can tell, it’s not trademark infringement because the mark is descriptive and has attained no secondary meaning. However, I want to be thorough and include why the Web Hosting company could or could not be held liable even in the event of actual infringement.
BTW, this is a fake scenario and not a real case, so I cannot link to the case. I only need to know if the Digital Millennium Copyright Act extends limitation of liability to trademarks as well as copyrights.
Thanks!
By Copyright Law Enquirer
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