In a time long ago, in a country far down under...The Lost Agency was started with an idea that things shouldn’t really be so hard to find! We built a brand around what we had, why start a company if you don’t practice what you preach from the start.

We focused on a catchy name that had all the domains available to protect our brand and worked from there. There was no point in having a company website that already had a number of competitors with similar domains or having to pay thousands to buy an existing website, we built our brand from the ground up.

We based the company about 5 main areas that we realised would prove the most useful to business and the least understood. So if you are interested in helping your business using online tools, and want honest feedback and useful advice contact us today!

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Image Protection Software - Copy Protection

Image Protection Services - Copy Protection

Protecting your image online is one brand protection area that only a few people actually investigate and understand how valuable this is for your brand. We seek to provide you with the image protection tools that you will require to best protect your image on your website.

Image Protection Tools

These tools are used to protect your online business interests and reduce the chance that skimmers or fraudulent users will be easily able to steal your images.

Protection against Google Image Search

If you think that your logo is valuable to you firm, just try looking for it on Google Image Search http://images.google.com and see if it comes up in the results, you may find that other people have been using it without your permission.

Protection Against External Users

Many people may not even download your images and often use images for online avatars in discussion boards, you can notice this when you are suddenly getting spikes in your server traffic for particular images. Simple methods for reporting to these users, can be to change the image to reflect your desired message such as "Stolen Image" and simply renaming the file on your server to a less useful title. You can also specify that images within your website are tied to your domain, so visitors skimming content will have to adjust code and may not have the technical knowledge to adjust the code to solve the missing image problem. HotLink software also prevents users linking to specified content on your servers.

Watermark Protection

You can place watermarks within images that competitors may wish to steal, this is useful for high resolution images that you may have a financial value attached to such as artist works. Invisible watermarks can also be placed over images to prevent users from simply clicking and saving the image.

Image Encoding

You can hide copyright information within image files, this can be text or watermark images that are only visible with certain software. This can be useful for court cases to prove ownership of the image in question.

CMS Image Protection

There is code available to remove the ability to show the IE image popup buttons, place into the <head> on the code of the page <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"

There are also other tools such as JSmug for leagacy version of Joomla 1.0 for a simple solution.

Hacking Htaccess files also present some options for reducing the chance that users may simply save images on your site.

Inhouse Developed Tools

We also have developed a in-house image protection tool, that you can add to your site with one of our clients. The advantage of this tool that it stops a number of common methods used to steal images, especially high resolution versions that many clients use on their site.

The generated code is designed to protect against, in most major browsers, the following methods of image copying:

  • right-clicking to save;

  • using the MSIE image toolbar;

  • clicking and dragging onto the desktop;

  • viewing the source code; and

  • taking a screenshot.

The tool is currently been updated to provide more support and easier implementation to existing websites, if you want to know more about how this tool can help please contact us with the requirements and the site address.

If you want to get serious about protecting your brand and growing your presence online contact us today