how to prevent images on website from being copied

Hello,

Thanks for your question about preventing images from being copied.  There are two ways to think of image theft on your WordPress site- 1) Use different options to secure your image through a plugin/watermark/copyright, or 2) Do not use the actual image to prevent theft. For a good article on securing images through software/watermarks/licensing, check out this article.  It is my opinion though, that when you put images of any type on the internet, they can be copied in one way or another.  It’s always possible to try using different security options that keep people from clicking on the image, but you can’t stop people from using screen capture tools.  So, it is my opinion that you should use a smaller, incomplete, or heavily water-marked version of the image if you want to use an image that you do not want people to copy.  This doesn’t necessarily stop a skilled artist from using graphics software to remove a watermark or duplicate the image manually, but it makes it much harder. In the end, if you want to keep an image from being duplicated, then you should not use that image on the internet.

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Regards,
Arnel C.