ost of the webmasters put have the year of publication and
in a great deal of energy also the name of your firm. This
and time in developing information could also be
quality content for their web displayed in a graphic pasted in
site. But they are not aware of the footer of the page, eg.
thousands of other webmasters who
are using content from their web "© 2000-2004, Active Venture Pte
sites without permission. Ltd. All rights reserved.
The problem of online copyright 2. Register with the U.S.
infringement is a growing Copyright Office
phenomenon. The ease and extent
of infringement is greatly You may also register your web
facilitated by the nature of web. site with the U.S. Copyright
Office. Even if you don't
register, still you will get
Webmasters can use the major protection, but in that case you
search engines to check whether will have to collect evidence
someone has stolen content from against the content thief.
their site. For each search, they
should carefully review the first You have to register your site
two results pages. Here, we with the U.S. Copyright Office
discuss some of the measures to within three months of its
safeguard your web content: launch.
1. Place a Copyright Remark 3. Action to be taken against
online thieves
You must demonstrate your
copyright notice on each page of You should send them a strong
your web site. This notice should mail telling them to stop their
copyright infringement
activities. There are several softwares to
prevent users from seeing your
If they continue to violate source code. These softwares
copyright, send a mail to their invoke a JavaScript function
ISP, credit card company, 'unescape' which 'encodes' the
webhosting company, and the HTML coding into a long series of
domain name registrar. characters. However, it can still
be easily decoded to HTML using
If nothing happens even after you another function of JavaScript.
have taken these steps, contact
your lawyer for further advice to 3. Use PDF files.
take legal action against the
culprits. More usage of password-protected
PDF files would prevent people
Apart from the above mentioned from blatant copy and paste of
measures, there are some simple your web content. Although the
tricks to prevent online thieves more experienced thieves could
from lifting content from your make use of several password
web site: recovery softwares available to
break through the protected PDFs
1. Disable right click and copy the content.
You can use JavaScript to disable 4. Conversion of text to images
the right click of your mouse.
But this method can be annoying This solution takes a lot of time
for the sincere visitors to your and the size of pages also get
site. increased but is a fool-proof
solution for copy-paste problem.
2. Software security But if someone is determined on
lifting content from your site, tricks would only prevent the new
then no one can stop him from thieves from copying content. The
re-typing the content. more experienced ones could
always come up with
5. Using Java/Flash counter-measures for all these
tricks.
If your images are embedded in
Java Applets or Flash, it is very To conclude, I would say that you
difficult for online thieves to should adopt one or more these
copy them. tricks/measures to reduce
copyright violation and for the
Here again, the more experienced more experienced thieves, you
thieves will take a ‘print have to seek help of U.S.
screen' of your image, open it in Copyright Office in taking legal
paint and get way with it. action against them.
So, you could see that all these
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