Drupal help w/ gallery image restrictions

Dear Drupalites,

I recently took a course to learn the new Drupal system, and redesigned a website associated with the Yale Biological Anthropology Labs. The new website serves as an information depot for potential students, collaborators, and interested parties.

Nancy and several people at the training were very patient and helpful with my questions. But, I still have one unanswered one.

We will also use this site to highlight our research, collections, and materials. To this end, we have a gallery page.

But here’s the rub: from my brief conversations with Drupal-ers, there is still no clear method to limit copying/saving images from the webpages.

Example: A colleague worked with a professional photographer in the field, photographing African apes. The photographer provides us written license to use the images for fundraising, BUT stipulated that images must be protected so they cannot simply be cut and pasted from a web page.

I have a similar example of my own, from a professional colleague photographing archeological material.

I am imagining some system similar to Flickr, where there are restrictions to access.

My simple solution to this for my personal website was to place a digital layer over my composite images, so that they cannot be selected: pantheon.yale.edu/~gpa2.

I know that resourceful people will always find ways to circumvent these restrictions, but at this point, I cannot upload anything to the gallery page that would be useful illustrations, since I cannot guarantee their copyright restrictions can be met.

HELP!

Gary

Gary P. Aronsen, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Biological Anthropology Laboratories, Yale University
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~gpa2