Help with Fotolia

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HB13DISH

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I needed some images for a website, so I looked around and found many nice photos in Fotolia website, which can be purchased by downloading directly from the website.
After reading their Terms and Conditions, I got confused as to what I can do with the images and if I am allowed to use them in my website without making copyright infringements.
Has anybody got any experience with Fotolia?
Also, how can I prevent other viewers from copying and saving the photos, once the website is published?
Thanks for any comments.:)
 
HB13DISH said:
Also, how can I prevent other viewers from copying and saving the photos, once the website is published?
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Sorry, I cant help you on Fotolia, I never heard of it till now.

There is not much you can do to protect the images displayed on your website, a screen grab will capture them no matter what you do.

There are ways of preventing people from right clicking on images and saving them. For example, on Flickr, if you right click a protected image and select 'save as', it will always give you an empty file called spaceball.gif.

If you look at the source code on one of their pages, you'll see how they do it and where the real image file is located.

View the source and do a search on it for the line containing the string "spaceball.gif" to see how they do it.

C :)
 
Thanks compufunk for your help.:)
Fotolia has a lot of stunning photos.
Here is an short paragraph from their About page:

"Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations."

After doing a bit of reading, it seems that when one buys a specific photo, he will be given a license for that particular purchase.
Here is a link:
_http://www.fotolia.com/Info/RoyaltyFreePhotos
I can't see any protected images in Flickr website.
There has to be standard code for preventing the "Save As" option.
 
The best way to stop "save as" is to use javascript/ css to display photos so that if the use disables Javascript the photos don't display.

Royalty Free images mean you can do what you want with them but as they're cheap (and you don't have copyright on them) why are you trying to stop people downloading them?

There's a Firefox plugin to allow to save blogged photos on Flickr (no more spaceball.gif).
 
Here is an example of a protected image. Well, kind of protected.

_http://www.flickr.com/photos/codypics/20502624/

Here is where the image really lives.

_http://farm1.static.flickr.com/17/20502624_5ccf04f16d.jpg

I dont know if I should post the code that does on filckr it so, I wont. You should be able to find the solution easily enough.
 
compufunk said:
Here is an example of a protected image. Well, kind of protected.

_http://www.flickr.com/photos/codypics/20502624/

Here is where the image really lives.

_http://farm1.static.flickr.com/17/20502624_5ccf04f16d.jpg

I dont know if I should post the code that does on filckr it so, I wont. You should be able to find the solution easily enough.
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Thanks compufunk. I see now what you mean. This will not help much, as you have given the solution to where the real image lies from the source page.
 
mhku said:
The best way to stop "save as" is to use javascript/ css to display photos so that if the use disables Javascript the photos don't display.

Royalty Free images mean you can do what you want with them but as they're cheap (and you don't have copyright on them) why are you trying to stop people downloading them?

There's a Firefox plugin to allow to save blogged photos on Flickr (no more spaceball.gif).
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Thanks mhku :)
I am trying to stop people downloading them so as not to take the chance that if another user saves them and use them, then I will not be blamed for distributing the photos.
The only difference between me and another user is that when I purchase the photos, I have an official license from Fotolia, while the others don't, so they will be taking the risk of copyright infringements.
BTW: I think that Fotolia might be a good place to sell original photos by photo hobbyist, as they have all kind of categories and from different countries.
How about satellite dishes setup or any exotic nature photos for example?
 
Do you intend using the full sized images on the website? If you use downscaled images, at least people will only be able to copy the downsized versions.

As I said, no matter what you do. A person only needs to do a screen grab to copy the image.

I think its pretty clear on the page that you linked to, that you can use the images on a website without worrying about what people do with them.

Fotolia offers royalty free images. All Fotolia licenses are royalty free, meaning when you acquire an image, you may use it as long and as many times as you like within the terms of the license. Depending on the license purchased, you may use the image for a variety of projects and applications such as those outlined in these charts.
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"Web Site / Blog Illustration " is marked as "Authorized use under this license" for all image standards.
 
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