Can I protect my photos from being copied

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  grammyjj · Member · Mar 12, 2013 at 8:25 pm

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  Is there a way to block my photos from being copied from my blog site

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  grammyjj · Member · Mar 12, 2013 at 8:27 pm

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  I put a lot of photos on my blog sites. I’m wondering if there is a way to protect them so that others cannot copy them and use them without permission?

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  amightywp · Member · Mar 12, 2013 at 9:28 pm

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  Hi there,

  There really are only a couple of options when it comes to preventing your photos from being copied.

  Your first option is to lock your site down so that people have to request permission to view your site at all. You can get information about how to do that right here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  The other (and more workable) method is for you to apply a watermark to your images so that even should your images be taken, anyone can see that they are still your images. We do not provide any automatic watermarking methods at this time, but most image-processing home software has some way of applying a watermark. While it does not look the best, this is the only way of really protecting your image (protections such as disabling right click does not actually protect your image, as these protections can be easily defeated).