Page 5 - Stealing Images

Ptersmart said:

"Don't forget though that downloading an image, unless it is specifically royalty free, is breaching your copyright (assuming the pic is yours)"

Not true: They didn't copy it, you gave it to them. They sent a request for a web page to your server. You sent them a copy of your work. Just as if you had handed a printed copy of it to someone who walked into your store. They can wad it up and throw it in the trash (delete temp internet files) or take it home and hang it on thier wall (put it on thier hard drive and use it as there desktop). YOU GAVE IT TO THEM. What they cant do is take it to kinkos and have a thousand of them printed and start giving or selling them to people (posting it on thier web site). Unless you allow them to.

"To make sure people understand this a small copyright notice can be placed on your screen, or a specific page created with a link to it, saying that all the work on the site is copyright."

See my previous reply: Getting work copyrighted is a little more involved than that.