From: Bruce Walker
On 11-10-04 6:06 AM, Keith Mosier wrote:
My daughter pointed out that the Flickr account that I used still
allowed a download of my photo, so I'll be taking it off that
website soon. I thought I had selected the protected options. I
tried but couldn't locate the option of sharing without allowing
use.
Keith, you have uploaded that image with Flickr's most restrictive
policies. It is set to License: copyright, all rights reserved. There
are no menu options to allow download. If you right-click on the
image you get a copyright noticed and no download menu.
Keith, do you leave your Flickr account signed in on your home computer?
Could your daughter have been using that computer to look at your Flickr
account?
You would have to be very determined, and be technically proficient
to download it as it appears there on Flickr. But as J.C. pointed
out, one can simply do a screen-grab to copy it. And that's true of
all photo sites on the web. Even embedding your images in a Flash
viewer won't stop a screen-grab. And as Larry implies, "sharing
without allowing use" is a bit of an oxymoron. The image file has to
be be downloaded into the browser for the browser to display it.
That's how browsers work. Anyone who knows about the "developer"
menus in Safari or Chrome can get at the cached copy or the direct
link of any image.
So nobody out there will protect your image any better than Flickr
already has for you. The only way to guarantee preventing
unauthorized use of your images is to avoid putting them on the net,
anywhere.
Rather than uploading your images, it would be fairly safe to just
describe them to us in vague terms. "Here's a picture of a pretty
girl holding a colourful beachball. The background is mostly out of
focus, but it's blue with horizontal, wavy white lines so she's
probably by the water." I don't think anyone could make much use of
that, even if they cut'n'paste it somewhere.
-bmw
I'm not sure what restrictions I place on my images uploaded to Flickr,
and I'm too lazy to look right now. I just try to remember to re-size
images to 800px or less on the long side & make them quality 8.
If someone wanted to download one for their screen saver, I don't think
I would mind.
I don't think the posted photos are high enough quality someone really
could use them for profit, although I do kind of keep a watch out for
them showing up on a T-shirt somewhere.
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