Good afternoon everyone,
I just wanted to introduce myself briefly to the list (having just joined).
As of July 14 I will be working alongside David Dawson as ICT Adviser at
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries.
I recently attended a Museums Copyright Group meeting at which several
people expressed concerns about placing images from their museum & galleries
on the web. It occured to me that there is a fairly simple piece of
JavaScript (see below) which can be cut and pasted into the <head> tags in
the HTML of any web page, which will prevent people from right-clicking your
images and saving them to hard disk. It is currently set up to display a
simple error message, but you can rewrite this to say anything you like.
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<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function right(e) { if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' && (e.which == 3 ||
e.which == 2)) return false; else if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft
Internet Explorer' && (event.button == 2 || event.button == 3)) { alert("You
do not have permission to download from this site."); return false; } return
true; } document.onmousedown=right; if (document.layers)
window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN); window.onmousedown=right;
</script>
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This won't completely secure your images, but it will certainly make life
difficult for anyone who doesn't have permission to download them.
I hope this is useful. I'm sure that people have found alternative solutions
to this problem. If so, do let me know.
Yours sincerely,
Nick Poole
Website Manager
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
16 Queen Anne's Gate
London
SW1H 9AA
Tel 020 7233 4200
Fax 020 7233 3686
Website: http://www.resource.gov.uk
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