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Protect Your Sites

By Clayton Crooks

If you're a Web designer, you've undoubtedly spent countless hours designing and perfecting the various graphical elements of sites on which you work. With all of the time and hard work you put into a site, it's certain that you'd do everything you could to protect the site from easy theft. Copyrighting the site is the obvious first step to take, as a copyright protects unique works ranging from books to Web sites.

However, even if you protect your works with a copyright, they'll continue to be an easy target for unscrupulous individuals who can download some elements, or even all of your site, and call the work their own. If you're serious about protecting your investment, you should know about new technologies like digital watermarking that let you enforce your copyright.

ImageBridge and ImageBridge Pro Digimarc www.digimarc.com/imaging cost: Contact vendor for pricing.
Pros: The best solution available for protecting Web media.	Cons: High durability settings can cause visible distortion.<>