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Here are a number of very effective methods of keeping unscrupulous
surfers from stealing your webpage source:
- Use the <INVISIBLE> </INVISIBLE> tags around the entire document.
- Use the DONTSTEAL attribute in the <BODY> tag.
- Ftp to your server, select all files and directories, hit "Delete".
- Put every existing copy of every file on floppies, place them in a shoebox and bury them in the backyard. There is another version of this method which involves placing the floppies in a plastic bag and hiding them in a different sort of hole. Both are equally effective.
- Password protect your entire site and make sure no one has the
password, not even you.
- Start>Run>format C:\
- Employ a small but fanatically loyal and well-armed band of
mercenaries to guard your site.
- .. with attack dogs, preferably rabid.
- Use any version of Microsoft FrontPage to create your site. (This won't prevent people from viewing your source, but no one will want to steal it.)
- Don't put your pages on the web.
The above comes from:
http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm
which covers the subject very well and I am delighted to give them credit.
The Serious Bit
People are always going to pinch your material. I admit it, many, even most of the ideas and even some of the words used on this website I copied from other websites. It is worse with the pictures. If you have a small, bright, neat image that is exactly relevant to someone elses current work they are likely to pinch it and you will never know until you see it by chance while you are surfing the one thousand million websites out there.
Yes, you could consider putting
© Copyright Richard Waller 2000
on the bottom of each page.
You can make it more threatening if you wish. Like this perhaps:
This website contains intellectual property including graphics and text protected by international copyright. All Rights Reserved. © 2000 Richard Waller
Now all you have to do is to find out whether anyone has pinched your material, identify who they are, and ask them to remove it, or at least give you accreditation as the author. If they do not do this you can find out exactly who they are and take them to court. If they are in a different country this could be an additional problem.
In brief, and I am not a lawyer, Copyright law says that you can take copies of things for your own scholorship and research. And you can quote a very small part of a document as literary criticism.
Anything more and it is stealing. And stealing is naughty.
In fact I tend to be more proactive and prefer a statement that says:
Feel free to copy and use this page as you wish, but please make sure that my name and URL are clearly shown as the source.
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