Forum: Community Center


Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

tammymc opened this issue on Aug 12, 2003 ยท 173 posts


Sambucus posted Wed, 13 August 2003 at 2:11 AM

Disabling the right click will dissuade only those that browse the galleries and find something they really like, in other words, the average member. Anyone looking to take down images for commercial use or to build up their own site will not be deterred by this. The membership should really have been consulted first. Its our art, after all. I personally have no problems with anyone downloading any of my pics, but I can understand there are those that do. Even those that remove the sig or replace it with their own are only hurting our pride as long as they dont actually sell the work or charge subscriptions to their site. And for those that do seek to profit from the work of others there are the copyright laws. Ideally I would like to see a short notice on every gallery header stating that the artist has/hasnt given their permission that images can be downloaded for personal use but Im not sure how difficult this would be to implement.