Tips and Techniques to Protect Images on the Internet

Protecting Images - Put plain and simple: the only way to protect your images from being downloaded or stolen off the internet is to not put them online in the first place. While I put this fact out there as blunt as possible, there are several image protection techniques we can use to make website downloads and image theft much harder. Of course, image theft can be defined in a number of ways, and its definition - and hence measures (if any) taken to prevent it - will depend upon the individual.
There are many ways to protect images, ranging from modifying the image itself (tips 1-3), to preventing webpages downloads (tips 4-8), to being pro-active in finding unauthorized usage of images online (tips 9-10). And while I discuss many common types of image protection, there are likely many others that I do not mention. A few of the techniques mentioned in this article are directed more towards individuals with both their own webpage and a knowledge in website design (these tips are marked with an *), several can be used for image protection on photo sharing website's such as smugmug, flickr, pbase, and webshots.

Please click over to Greg Cope's article at Nature Focused about Website Image Protection

Greg also provides links to other Resources on Image Protection:
US Library of Congress - United States Copyright office for copyright registration.
Stolen Content - Content protection and what to do in case of theft.
Wildlifephoto - Jan Allinder's article on Image Protection.
Nature Photographers.net - Protecting images on the web.
Greg also provides very useful information about Copyright
e.g.
A copyright is a form of protection provided by law that prevents the use of a piece of work, and the copyright owner the person who originally created that work (please visit the United States Copyright Office for more information). In almost every case, if you push the shutter button you hold the copyright. However, it is always advisable to register a copyright of your images with the United States Library of Congress or a similar entity in the country where you reside. While this will not prevent images from being downloaded and/or stolen, it will give you proof that you are the copyright owner. Registering is easy, cheap, and can be done in batch (eg you can register several images, such as "Photographic Works of - First Quarter, 2008").
There is no international copyright law which provides immediate protection for an artist against unauthorized usage: however most countries have copyright laws that pertain in that country. Protection is also provided internationally through the Berne Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property (Berne Convention) and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). For more information on international copyright laws, please visit the US Copyright Office International Copyright webpage.

and much more.
Very useful ... check it out.

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Photo books show many faces of history

Asbury Park Press
HENRY JACKSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It is easy to think about the American civil rights movement through the context of the few compelling personalities that history books tend to remember.

There are the heroes — Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks. The controversial icons — Malcolm X. And, of course, your clear-cut villains — former Alabama Gov. George Wallace springs to mind. But the modern civil rights movement was not a monolith. It was not limited to a handful of key players whose faces we can remember vividly. It was a multifaceted, multihued journey that swept across America.

It is this notion that provides the quiet beauty and power of "Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights." Through the compelling photography of Bob Adelman, a legendary civil rights photographer, we see a diverse struggle fought on many fronts — from the flexed bicep of boxer George Foreman and the cocked bat of home run king Hank Aaron to the stoic faces of civil rights marchers and images of King himself.

Augmented with essays from Charles Johnson, "Mine Eyes" strips the civil rights movement to its essence. We see the various people and personalities who fueled the movement removed from the summary of an encyclopedia or history book and put into context. Adelman's black and white photographs testify that, if anything, there were many faces to the civil rights movement. It is a powerful testament indeed.

It is a similar approach, though a decidedly more cynical and tawdry premise, that typifies "The Most Notorious Crimes in American History: Fifty Fascinating Cases From the Files.

"If there is a sweeping theme in "Notorious Crimes," it is that violence knows no unique face, nor one unique victim. There are iconic images of the criminals, murderous and deranged (Charles Manson at trial, for example) and comparably pedestrian (Kenneth Lay of Enron fame.)

And there are the victims, some obvious (the three civil rights workers beaten to death and shot by Klansmen in Mississippi in 1964) and some that, one suspects, went through history mostly unnoticed. (A picture of Lee Harvey Oswald's widow and daughter somberly doing laundry after his death.)

For those who believe that America's crime-obsessed tabloid culture is generational and a sign of decline, this book may offer a stiff rejoinder. The images of Lizzie Borden's ax or, for that matter, the snapshots of Chester Gillette (his slaying his lover in 1906 became the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic "An American Tragedy") and Grace Brown (his lover) offer more than enough evidence that crime, and the sensationalism that most assuredly follows it, have no unique generation.

This is not to say that "Crimes" is without value. As history, imagery and a bit of guilty intrigue, there is plenty of material and it is presented neatly and informatively. And there is, after all, a reason culture fixates on crimes. They're interesting.

credits: app.com

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