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Old October 11th, 2005, 03:37 AM
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How do you guys go around copyrighting your site?
Mine basically says "© 2005 pmam21 (name)" with some parts on Creative Commons.

Should I go about adding disclaimers and stuffs around?
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Old October 11th, 2005, 04:32 AM
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Copyright is automatic (in the UK at least) and is set by your home countries copyright laws. In the UK you don't need to make a copyright notice. It just happens.

Whether or not you have a disclaimer people will steal stuff if they want to so you might as well not bother clogging up your page footer with a load of mumbo jumbo.
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Old October 11th, 2005, 07:56 AM
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It's not an official copyright until you do some paperwork though, right? I don't think you can just put up a copyright sign (too lazy to look it up) and it just be "copyrighted".

Of course, I'm on my first cup of coffee, so I could be wrong.
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Old October 11th, 2005, 08:09 AM
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Copyright exists on anything you have written or published. It is AUTOMATIC. Totally automatic.

In the UK anything you write is automatically protected until 75 years after the authors death. You need to use a bit of common sense. Copying this post would not get you in court for copyright infringement but copying one of my websites would.
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Uh but that's not the same in the US at least I dont think. At the very least it's the difference between plagarisim and copyright infringement.
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Old October 11th, 2005, 08:36 AM
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Basic UK website copyright law

I don't know about US law, sorry...
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Old October 11th, 2005, 06:43 PM
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Copyright is automatic, proving it is not. To protect your intellectual property merely file a Form TX. Complete info at http://copyright.gov/
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That's prety much what you have to do in US. For canada, as soon as you create something, it's copyrighted. For websites, the Date/Time stamp on most of them would be sufficient. however if it gets updated regularily and you want to protect all your information, make sure you take backups.
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That's prety much what you have to do in US. For canada, as soon as you create something, it's copyrighted. For websites, the Date/Time stamp on most of them would be sufficient. however if it gets updated regularily and you want to protect all your information, make sure you take backups.

That's good to hear considering that I'm in Canada.
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Copyright exists on anything you have written or published. It is AUTOMATIC. Totally automatic.
Sure. It's totally automatic until someone comes along and claims they said / wrote it first, eh? Just a thought because I don't live in the UK, but I'll bet there is more to it than that.
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Old October 11th, 2005, 08:15 PM
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Sure. It's totally automatic until someone comes along and claims they said / wrote it first, eh? Just a thought because I don't live in the UK, but I'll bet there is more to it than that.

now how do I prove that I wrote it first? Ask google to cache the old version of my website? lol
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That's prety much what you have to do in US. For canada, as soon as you create something, it's copyrighted. For websites, the Date/Time stamp on most of them would be sufficient. however if it gets updated regularily and you want to protect all your information, make sure you take backups.


Anywhere in the world as soon as you create something it's your right to copy. Try convincing a judge that your timestamp is a substitute for filing the form ... and good luck.

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Copyright is automatic, proving it is not.
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