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Joe Hussar
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Web Site Copy Protection - 1/7/2003 14:38:52
Hello All...............
I recently had my web site " stolen" .........*&&%$$##!!!
I got a bunch of good ideas on how to deal with it from readers of this forum for which I am most grateful!!
I know the WWW is by design " free for all" but I wonder if there is any way I protect any part of my web site from access/theft............ I have an ecommerce site and I can' t get into any kind of restrictive membership, password requirements, etc.
I' ve heard there is a way you can protect certain items, such as images for example, so if someone tries to right click and " borrow it" .........it just won' t work.
Can anyone give me a suggestion or two as to what can be done and/or where I can go to find out how to implement it??
Very much appreciate any input!
Joe Hussar
candywebster@aol.com
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Gil
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RE: Web Site Copy Protection - 1/7/2003 18:05:48
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I wonder if there is any way I protect any part of my web site from access/theft
Short answer - No. You can make a directory password protected and that will keep 99.9% of the people out.
Without passwording it - Big No!
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Joe Hussar
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RE: Web Site Copy Protection - 1/8/2003 7:40:41
Thanks folks..........
It at least saves me the wasted time and effort, to know it' s wasted time and effort!!
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LB
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RE: Web Site Copy Protection - 1/13/2003 15:00:08
From Joe Burns:
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You should place the circle C (©) and the word " copyright" plus the year and the name of the author. Like so:
This page © Copyright 1997, Dr. Joe Burns, Ph.D.
You may think you only need the circle c or the word copyright alone. But remember that the circle c is created in HTML through this command: & copy . That will not show as a circle c when the source code is printed. Put them both to be safe.
..............................Whether you do put the copyright on every page, or just the top level page, make a point of putting the copyright in the text so it shows when the page is displayed, and also put it in the HTML code. Like so:
<!-- This page Copyright 1997, Dr. Joe Burns, Ph.D. -->
Good idea to have that copyright in the coding also.... if the thieves sometimes forget to change a link or typos, there' s a good chance they won' t think to change the copyright that only shows in the html.
Full article http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/copyright.html
< Message edited by LB -- 1/13/2003 3:03:08 PM >
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drray
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RE: Web Site Copy Protection - 1/15/2003 16:43:33
Your most effective remedy is under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Specifically, Title II of the DMCA (17 USC Sec. 512(c)) gives ISPs a " safe harbor" from copyright infringement suits. But they can only claim the protection of this safe harbor if they do not have actual or constructive notice of the infringement. Notify the ISP, in writing, of the infringement, and be as specific as possible. (In legal jargon, this is sometimes called a " cease and desist" letter). Provide the link to your site and the link to the infringing site. A smart ISP will respond by taking the infringing site down, temporarily or permanently. Failure to do so exposes the ISP to liability for contributory infringement under Title II of the DMCA. If you want more information, here' s a brief article I wrote about contributory infringement under the DMCA: http://cot.emich.edu/ray/May%202001-DMCA.pdf.
As a practical matter, this is likely to be your ONLY effective remedy. The creeps who steal content don' t have any money to pay you damages (if they had any money, they might not be so inclined to swipe stuff from others to begin with), so going after them will just cost you a lot of time and, more importantly, money that you' ll never recoup. The ISP, on the other hand, has a bit of a deeper pocket. ISPs don' t want to get sued for contributory infringement; it' s usually easier and cheaper for them to just take the site down.
Good luck, and let me know if I can provide any more information.
Dan Ray, J.D.
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Eastern Michigan University
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hhammash
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RE: Web Site Copy Protection - 1/20/2003 7:42:57
Hi,
If you disable the right click you will not protect the images. I read it somewhere and they put the way to overcome this protection.
Hisham
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pageoneresults
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RE: Web Site Copy Protection - 1/22/2003 13:51:46
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Just this week I found two different SEO companies had copied content from my site. One of the companies copied my verbiage verbatium, the other changed a word here and there but left the style, positioning and even the typos in the text he stole.
Magnolia, would you be willing to send me the URLs of those two SEOs who stole your content? If so, please send an email to magnolia(@)seoconsultants.com. I' d first like to make sure that niether of those two are in our database of reviewed consultants. If they are not, I want to make sure that they do not make it in! ;)
Thanks in advance!
P.S. There really is nothing you can do to prevent public information from being copied. Google takes a very strong stance against copyright infringement and if you document and prove your case to them, Google will delist the offending pages and post a link to the DMCA report in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). They basically put the company who stole the content on the spot!
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Thomas Brunt
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RE: Web Site Copy Protection - 1/23/2003 13:50:36
Disabling right click does not protect images.
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I found it by checking my site in a search engine one day and being very surprised to see another site with identical description to mine. What was worse, is I have known the person who did it for nearly 10 years!
