How to secure a copyright See this US Fedaral Government Page about copyrights. Why Images Can't Really Be Protected • When using Internet Explorer, a copy of every image on the webpage is stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder in c\windows\temp internet files, therefore a bright user could save that file to another location on his hard drive, and he would if he really wanted your images. • Netscape also has it's own temp internet files folder & they can be copied & saved too. • Anyone who knows the url (address) of the image can enter it in the Address or Location Bar of browser to load the image by itself.  • Clicking on Properties for the web page in Netscape, will give a list of the addresses of all the images on the page. Other browsers such as Opera probably have a similar feature. • Anyone can use the Print Screen key on Windows keyword and then paste the image file into their favorite graphics program and do with it what they want. Methods of Protecting Images and Artwork •  Add a custom watermark to your images.  This requires a specialized Graphics Editor and the necseeary artistic skills to use it. •  Use a javascript that disables the right mouse button.  This prevents someone from right clicking the image on a page and directly saving it to a location on the hard drive.  While this does act as a deterrant to the "image thief", it also disable the other important right mouse click features such as Create Shortcut, Add to Favorites, Print etc. •  Place an Invisible Object on top of your image. (Cool Page Insert Menu)  This is the recommended method of protecting your images on pages made with Cool Page.  This method does not disable the right mouse button either.  When someone right clicks on your image he will still be able to use the right click features.  If he chooses Save Picture he will think he is saving yourimage file, but what he is actually saving is a transparant image called t.gif. Example:  Right click this image and try to save it:

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Javascript To Disable Right Mouse Button We do NOT recommend using the following method to protect your images and artwork, because disabling the right mouse also disables other important features of the browser, such as Copy Shortcut or Add To Favorites.  Certainly you do not want to discourage people from bookmarking and saving links to your pages, as that would be working against building the traffic to your site. Also making the browser break on your web site, is going to irritate visitors and either drive them away from your web site or perhaps force them to set up a Zone in their browser such that Javascript is off when viewing your web site.  This type of code has the potential to interfere with other javascripts on a webpage and like all other 3rd party code put on your pages made with Cool Page, it is NOT supported by Cool Page Customer Support. There are many, many reasons not to use the no right click script.   However, since it is so often requested (against our best advice), here is the necessary javascript code that disables the right mouse button. Example: Click Here Javascript Code Put this code on your page using the Cool Page HTML Object Tool:

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<script language=JavaScript> var message="Function Disabled!"; /////////////////////////////////// function clickIE() {if (document.all) {alert(message);return false;}} function clickNS(e) {if (document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!document.all)) { if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {alert(message);return false;}}} if (document.layers) {document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS;} else{document.onmouseup=clickNS;document.oncontextmenu=clickIE;} // --> </script>