Plugin / Copyright Proof

The Digiprove patent, process, and implementation has been evaluated and validated by Georgia Tech. More about this at http://www.digiprove.com/georgia-tech-opinion-on-compliance.aspx

Normally only the digital fingerprint of your content is uploaded, not the content itself. Premium users do have the option to upload content, which preserves your content independently of WordPress. The only exceptions to this is if your Wordress installation uses an old version of PHP (earlier than PHP 5.1.2).

Have you registered with Digiprove yet (see Installation)? Have you activated your Digiprove registration by clicking on the link received by email? If you have not received the activation mail, check your junk mail folder, then contact us at [email protected] Note: The Digiprove notice only appears on posts and pages that have been Digiprove-protected. To do this for existing posts and pages, you should open each one and press Update & Digiprove. Alternatively you can upgrade to a Personal or higher membership and avail of the “Bulk-Digiprove” function which will do this automatically for you. (Settings/Copyright Proof/History)

Copyright Proof uses the Digiprove service, which needs to have the name of the person claiming copyright, and a valid email address to which Digiprove content certificates will be sent. Without this, there is no proof of ownership, so you might as well just have a simple copyright notice, there are a few plugins that will do this for you. Digiprove does not make use of the registration information except to deliver the service. Please read the terms of use (including privacy policy) at http://www.digiprove.com/termsofuse_page.aspx

Some of the features of the plug-in are totally free for use on a single domain. This includes the key function of certifying the textual content of your posts and pages. If you want to use the more advanced features, such as protecting the copyright of pictures or other embedded media, you will need a valid subscription with Digiprove.

It is free for use by registered educational establishments or charities, just write to us at [email protected] with details including evidence of your status to obtain this free subscription.

From WordPress: – You can publish content from multiple domains – You can protect individual files and media as well as the blog post text – You can Digiprove more pages and posts per day – You can elect to have your valuable Digiprove Content Certificates emailed to you automatically – You can create a custom text to display in your Digiprove notice rather than using one of the standard texts – You can have a hyperlink from your certificate page on www.digiprove.com back to your WordPress post (or page) – You can save content at digiprove.com – You can compose your own license caption and statement rather than selecting from one of the standard ones – You can be alerted on attempted theft through right-click and track ip addresses of those users At www.digiprove.com: – You can protect the IP of all types of content – You can create tamper-proof audit trails within applications – You can send certified email – You can create authentication methods for your content files

https://www.digiprove.com/secure/login.aspx

We actively seek information about problems or criticisms you may have. So please let us know at [email protected] – we will address the problem as soon as possible. We find that in many cases of reported bugs there is actually an error in another plugin installed on the site. To check this, you should first of all de-activate all plugins with the exception of Copyright Proof. If the problem goes away, then re-activate each plugin until the problem re-appears, and there most likely is the plugin that is giving rise to the problem.

We actively seek your suggestions at [email protected]. We will respond to every suggestion and if we like it we’ll act on it.

Yes: – From within WordPress Revisions function, you can see see the Digiprove status of each revision, including the certification link – From the All Posts (or All Pages) function in WordPress, you can see the latest Digiprove status for each post/page. – There is a dedicated “Copyright/Ownership/Licensing” panel below the Edit Post function which also shows the last Digiprove action You can review your history online (and perform other functions) by visiting https://www.digiprove.com/members/my_digiprove.aspx – you will need to log in using your Digiprove user id and password.

As long as you retain a copy of your original file or content, you will be able to prove absolutely and irrefutably in future that you had possession of it. The details of each Digiprove certification are available online via a url that you can share with 3rd parties. There is also a proving process examines the Digiprove certificate and your content to ensure that the certificate is valid and the content’s fingerprint is identical to what is certified. This can be performed online at https://www.digiprove.com/secure/DigiverifyFile.aspx (for files) or https://www.digiprove.com/secure/VerifyText.aspx (text, tweets, blog-posts etc.) There is also a downloadable verification utility that works offline Note to WordPress Users: WordPress’s Revision function is a great way to automatically keep copies of all previous versions of your content. We recommend NOT to disable this function.

There are various colors, font-sizes etc. you can choose, these are found on the “Advanced” tab of the Settings panel. To make the message appear consistently it is quite heavily styled at the element level. However you can influence some aspects of the appearance using CSS style code such as: *[id|=”dprv_cp”] { margin-left:40%; margin-right:40%; background-color:red; } You can also obtain pre-styled or self-styled and personalised tags in image form at http://www.digiprove.com/generate_digiprove_tags.aspx

To permit right-clicking, dragging and text selection on a page or a post, include this code: var dprv_unlockPage=true;

This can occur if some settings have changed or haven’t been correctly transferred when hosting arrangements change (e.g. a change of domain name or changing hosting). Each API key is associated with a domain (e.g. myinterestingblog.com, or www.myinterestingblog.com). On initial installation, Copyright Proof will automatically assign one to you using the domain name recorded in the WordPress “General” settings of your blog (uses Site Address if completed otherwise WordPress Address). If you change this domain name, or you want to set up the plugin to run in another blog, you can request a new api key for the new domain, as follows: IF NO CHANGES, CHECK YOUR SETTINGS: – In WordPress, go to Settings, General and check that either: – Site Address (URL) is set to http://www.example.com OR https://www.example.com OR – Site Address (URL) is blank and WordPress Address (URL) is set to http://www.example.com OR https://www.example.com – Go to Settings, Copyright Proof – Ensure that ‘Registered Digiprove User?’ answer is set to “I am already registered with Digiprove” – Digiprove User Id should be set to your Digiprove User Id (which is usually set to your email address) – Ensure that Digiprove API Key is set to the right value for your domain name. Each API key is associated with a domain (e.g. myinterestingblog.com, or www.myinterestingblog.com). It will be 22 characters long. If you don’t have this you can find it by logging in at https://digiprove.com/secure/login.aspx, and going to Preferences / Issue/Renew API Keys – Press the “Update Settings” button – You can immediately test whether the settings are working by clicking on the blue refresh icon on the Subscription Type Line – if you don’t receive an error message all is OK. IF CHANGE OF DOMAIN NAME: – Log in at https://www.digiprove.com/secure/login.aspx – Go to Preferences, Issue/Renew API keys – Remove the existing api key (which will be for your old domain) – Request a new api key (use new domain name e.g. example.com) – Copy the new api key – In WordPress, go to Settings, Copyright Proof – tick the box “Let me input a new API key” – Paste the new API key – Press Update Settings – Test whether the settings are working by clicking on the blue refresh icon on the Subscription Type Line – if you don’t receive an error message all is OK. IF YOU HAVE AN ADDITIONAL DOMAIN NAME: Note that multiple domains under one user id is only available to subscribers. Free users are limited to one domain. – Log in to the WordPress site for your new/additional domain – Install Copyright Proof plugin if not already done, and follow Installation Instructions – Go to Settings, Copyright Proof – Tick the box entitled “Obtain new API key automatically” and press “Update Settings” (you will be asked for your password). – Test whether the settings are working by clicking on the blue refresh icon on the Subscription Type Line – if you don’t receive an error message all is OK.

There are limits to how many Digiprove operations will be processed per day, depending on your subscription level: – Basic (Free) : 10 – Personal : 50 – Professional : 200 – Corporate Light: 2,000 – Corporate : unlimited Note if you are also using Digiprove’s Autoprotect app (http://www.digiprove.com/autoprotect.aspx), these limits apply to the combined daily total of transactions from Autoprotect and Copyright Proof.

Use of the Digiprove API from other applications is free. The same limitations apply for the premium services as if you were using this plugin. Contact us at [email protected] if you would like to know more. Details of the (Soap) API are found at www.digiprove.com/resources.aspx

Tested only with the AMP plugin by Automattic. Note the copy-protect function is limited to preventing user selection due to AMP guidelines on limiting/eliminating Javascript. Please give your feedback on [email protected].

When you install Copyright Proof for the first time, you may want to protect and certify all of your existing posts and pages. For some users with a big archive of content, this could take some time and effort manually and until release 3.0 of the plugin you were further restricted by your daily allowance. Using the Bulk-Digiproving feature new users can automatically Digiprove older posts but it must be done within 30 days of registration. How many posts/pages can be Digiproved depends on your subscription level: Basic (free) users can bulk-digiprove up to 30 posts/pages For Personal users the limit is 150 above that there is no limit