How can I protect the pictures from being copied or downloaded?
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How can I protect the pictures on my website from being copied or downloaded?
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Do you hold copyright on those images?
Please be aware that all information of any kind on the internet can be copied by shooting a screenshot, regardless of any warning we may place on the site like copyright notices. See: Prevent Content Theft https://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/
What’s best for your wordpress.com hosted blog is watermarking your images or not placing any images and/or text that you don’t want stolen on the internet at all.
If you use the Duotone theme right click is disabled via CSS but that’s not available on any other themes. This is because anyone can find instructions on the internet and get around it in less than 20 seconds flat.
For clarity you can read what Staff said here about Duotone https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-disable-right-click-on-photos?replies=5#post-1659713 but in the end the effect still means the answer is the same one I posted above.
You may also want to read Perspectives on Watermarks (and Various Methods to Protect Your Images). A roundup of opinions and processes on adding watermarks to images online, from nine WordPress photographers. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/watermarks/
If you require plugins see: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com
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In fact you do not hold the copyright on the stock images you are using. Pretending they are yours can land you up in a copyright infringement situation and your site can be suspended.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-guidelines/
https://wordpress.com/tos/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/https://www.tineye.com/search/8596eca011f87b67b82fbe8d4d1d2f976ffdf135/
https://www.tineye.com/search/a73efd5beeb2c4d9c9c95344ce8ee0b942b310a7/
https://www.tineye.com/search/f8bef66d9c8e5a36a490bd0063856c135cf42d86/
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Hi folks, we have an article with several perspectives on protecting images here:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/watermarks/I didn’t see a copyright mentioned here, but do be sure you’re working within the rights you’ve agreed to with the stock photo company. Cheers :)
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