Its Easy to Get Copyrighted!
| Category: Website Design and Development | Date: 2003-10-25 |
Many people wonder about the copyrighting process, and if it is worth all the hassle. Well, quit wondering!
If you created your site and have not used direct information someone else has already written or created, in other words your own content, it is already copyrighted. All you need to do is put Example: © 2000 John Doe (your name)" and your address if you choose. Anyone who creates any type of writing, drawing, sculpture or any original device automatically owns the copyrights to it. The Library of Congress copyright registration is simply an official record of said creation and gives you a better leverage if you have to take someone to court for plagiarism.
If you want to create another form of legal record, you can do a Poor Mans Copyright. Send yourself a registered copy of the original creation by US Mail. Put it in a safe place unopened, and if you need to prove your copyright, have the opening of the envelope witnessed by an attorney or court. It is a legal instrument. If you want more information on the value of things you can do to give your site more credibility, see the site building section at YMTC or contact us directly. For more legal information you can visit http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
This is part of the documentation directly from the Library of Congress:
HOW TO SECURE A COPYRIGHT
Copyright Secured Automatically upon Creation The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright. (See following NOTE.) There are, however, certain definite advantages to registration. See "Copyright Registration."
Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. "Copies" are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. "Phonorecords" are material objects embodying fixations of sounds (excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or LPs. Thus, for example, a song (the "work") can be fixed in sheet music (" copies") or in phonograph disks (" phonorecords"), or both.
If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date.
You are copyrighted!
About the Author
Your Internet Friend, Mike Smith, of CM/YMTC,
http://cmymtc.com, is an experienced site designer, writer, and master in Ebook and Ezine creation and marketing. His affordable two-book Easy Guide package will teach you everything you need to know to produce successful Ebooks and Ezines. You can even share in the profits with his Affiliate program.
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If you created your site and have not used direct information someone else has already written or created, in other words your own content, it is already copyrighted. All you need to do is put Example: © 2000 John Doe (your name)" and your address if you choose. Anyone who creates any type of writing, drawing, sculpture or any original device automatically owns the copyrights to it. The Library of Congress copyright registration is simply an official record of said creation and gives you a better leverage if you have to take someone to court for plagiarism.
If you want to create another form of legal record, you can do a Poor Mans Copyright. Send yourself a registered copy of the original creation by US Mail. Put it in a safe place unopened, and if you need to prove your copyright, have the opening of the envelope witnessed by an attorney or court. It is a legal instrument. If you want more information on the value of things you can do to give your site more credibility, see the site building section at YMTC or contact us directly. For more legal information you can visit http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
This is part of the documentation directly from the Library of Congress:
HOW TO SECURE A COPYRIGHT
Copyright Secured Automatically upon Creation The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright. (See following NOTE.) There are, however, certain definite advantages to registration. See "Copyright Registration."
Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. "Copies" are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. "Phonorecords" are material objects embodying fixations of sounds (excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or LPs. Thus, for example, a song (the "work") can be fixed in sheet music (" copies") or in phonograph disks (" phonorecords"), or both.
If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date.
You are copyrighted!
About the Author
Your Internet Friend, Mike Smith, of CM/YMTC,
http://cmymtc.com, is an experienced site designer, writer, and master in Ebook and Ezine creation and marketing. His affordable two-book Easy Guide package will teach you everything you need to know to produce successful Ebooks and Ezines. You can even share in the profits with his Affiliate program.
http://www.makemoneyhowto.com/clkbnksale1.htm
webmaster@coyote1marketing.com
http://www.makemoneyhowto.com
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