{"id":249,"date":"2012-12-05T15:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:46:08","slug":"protect-your-photos-against-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/protect-your-photos-against-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect your photos against copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently asked questions on Piwigo.com support is <em>&#8220;how do I forbid copy on my photos ?&#8221;<\/em>. Here is how Piwigo can help you.<\/p>\n<p>Before listing tips and tricks it is important to understand that no protection against copy is 100% reliable, be it on Piwigo or anywhere else: as soon as a photo is visible on the web, it can be copied, one way or another. It is just &#8220;more or less&#8221; easy, depending on computer skills of the thief. If anyone says otherwise there is a good chance he is either naive or incompetent or simply a liar.<\/p>\n<p>Which technical protections are available in Piwigo?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>plugin rightClick prevents from\u00a0 right click on photos. Please note that it has no impact on administrator users.<\/li>\n<li>on screen [Administration &gt; menu Users &gt; sub-menu Manage], say &#8220;no&#8221; on option &#8220;high definition enabled&#8221; for all users<\/li>\n<li>on screen [Administration &gt; menu Configuration &gt; sub-menu Options &gt; tab Display &gt; section Photo Page], deactivate icon &#8220;Download this file&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>on screen [Administration &gt; menu Configuration &gt; sub-menu Options &gt; tab Watermark], add your own watermark.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_252\" style=\"width: 577px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252\" title=\"Piwigo 2.4 introduced the &quot;watermark&quot; feature. All your photos are automatically watermarked.\" src=\"http:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/piwigo-watermark-configuration.png\" alt=\"Piwigo 2.4 introduced the &quot;watermark&quot; feature. All your photos are automatically watermarked.\" width=\"567\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/piwigo-watermark-configuration.png 567w, https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/piwigo-watermark-configuration-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piwigo 2.4 introduced the &#8220;watermark&#8221; feature. All your photos are automatically watermarked.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are only &#8220;technical&#8221; protections, with a limited efficiency.\u00a0In addition we recommend to highlight that <em>&#8220;All rights reserved. Do not reproduce in whole or in part without prior written permission.&#8221;<\/em>, for example. You can choose to display this message in several locations. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in page banner<\/li>\n<li>in a PWG Stuffs block, anywhere on the page<\/li>\n<li>in a personalized menu with plugin Advanced Menu Manager<\/li>\n<li>in page footer with plugin Perso Footer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_251\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251\" title=\"Create a custom footer on all your pages with Piwigo plugin Perso Footer\" src=\"http:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/piwigo-custom-footer.png\" alt=\"Create a custom footer on all your pages with Piwigo plugin Perso Footer\" width=\"580\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/piwigo-custom-footer.png 580w, https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/piwigo-custom-footer-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Create a custom footer on all your pages with Piwigo plugin Perso Footer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently asked questions on Piwigo.com support is &#8220;how do I forbid copy on my photos ?&#8221;. Here is how Piwigo can help you. Before listing tips and tricks it is important to understand that no protection against copy is 100% reliable, be it on Piwigo or anywhere else: as soon as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-work-piwigo","8":"without-featured-image"},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Pierrick Le Gall","author_link":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/author\/plg\/"},"featured_img":null,"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Pierrick Le Gall","author_link":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/author\/plg\/"},"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/category\/work-piwigo\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Work with Piwigo<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Work with Piwigo<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 5, 2012","modified":"Updated on January 28, 2019"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 5, 2012 3:17 pm","modified":"Updated on January 28, 2019 9:46 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}