You do NOT have to have register a copyright of your site's content in order for your content to be copyrighted. Pretty much anything you write that is original is covered by copyright law as soon as you right and pbulish it on your site. Check out the official government web site on copyrights...
Specifically parts of this "basics of copyrights" document like:
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Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.
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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.
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one such device being a computer/browser and one such "work" or "copy" being a web page.
Web hosts almost always take down pages containing even 'unregistered' copyright materials if you can prove you published it first because they know that pretty much everything published (whether registered or not) is instantly covered by copyright laws and considered to be owned by its creator.
I had a couple people repost blog posts from my site or ezine articles that I wrote. Filled out a DMCA request and in every case, the offending copies were taken down in 24-48 hours, in some cases (as on blogspot) within 8 hours.
Last edited by Social-Media; 06-21-2010 at 01:42 PM..
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