DO Watermark?

[imageconstrux]

As I've been surfing through the oodles of logo designs that have been created here, I was thinking about the protection of the designer's intellectual property.

Sure a 1" logo at 72 dpi may not be really useful to some, but that doesn't mean someone won't try to lift it.

Is there some kind of innocuous, generic DO watermark that can be layered on top of designs, to protect the designers logos?

[Palmer]

I don't know of a way to automatically watermark an image but they can do it themselves with their software. Personally I don't do it to mine because I think it is distracting to look at.

[Eagle]

^ Agrees :)

[hotnuts21]

You could always disable right click, but this brings in a whole nother load of questions, personnally I can stand sites that use the no right click function. I use right click for a lot of things and copying stuff is just one of the things you are disabling.

Also some of us resellers actually like to copy the picture to our site and show the clients so it dont work there either. In fact I will just shut up pretend I didnt say anything :)

[Eagle]

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Diabling right-click is really only aimed at the casual internet user who probably wouldn't think twice about nicking an image and is also generally not very clued up about browsers...

There's always:

• View> Source - if you really want to see how a page is made up (fonts, colours etc)

• File > Save as...> Web Page, complete - speaks for itself...

And for images - 'Print screen'... :)
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[Raja]

You can't protect your work on the public internet. If you don't want the possibility of having something lifted, don't post it.

The only way to really prove your work is to take a photograph of yourself while working on the source file (have it open on your computer). Mail it to yourself and don't open it when you recieve it. That way, the federal postmark legally proves the date of creation. With the photo inside, along with the source file you really prove your claim. You can open it in court.


:D

[imageconstrux]

Ok.

Just trying to look out for the intellectual property of the creative folks here. :)

[Eagle]

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Thanks! :)

It is a nightmare and we really appreciate your concern. :) B)