A legal concept intended to protect the intellectual property rights of authors and artists by making unauthorized copying a civil or criminal offense.
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How do I copyright my website?
My website has been in development for a long time and cost a lot of money. How do I go about securing an enforceable copyright on my website design and what is the proper way to post a copyright ...
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Rss legal issues
I know it is illegal to post full articles of a website on yours beacuse of copyright.
Is it legal to post the rss feeds of a website on your website?
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Website content copied - How can I prove that I wrote it?
One of our competitors constantly copies all our website content.
Now, I assume the trouble is to proof that we wrote the content first and that it is not the other way round.
I checked on ...
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Legal information on a website
I'm in the process of re-developing my website.
We're currently a non-monetary website, funded entirely by ourselves, but we'd like to start earning some money from adverts and possibly paid content.
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Can CSS be copyrighted?
I know CSS on a website is protected under the website's copyright since it is considered part of the overall design. I also know that images used inCSS are copyrightable.
How about when CSS is used ...
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Is it important to show the current year alongside my (c) Copyright symbol?
Should I update the copyright notice every January? as in
© ACME Corp 2011
I'm not asking about whether to claim copyright at all (that is dealt with here), but whether the year has any ...
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Would it be wrong to register a local domain (.ro) which has the same name as a famous forum .com?
Let's say there is a niche forum called HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying.com (I'm making it up, of course) and it's in English.
And I want to create a similar forum in Romanian, registering ...
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Photos being copied all over the place
We have a rather popular website with plenty of photos. Our whole business depends on our content - and the photos are important in this. We invest a lot of time, effort, and money into taking these ...
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Copyright word or symbol
After reading this post I was wondering which is best to use for websites out of the following,
Copyright © 2010 "COMPANY"
© 2010
Copyright 2010
Also, if we license everything we produce ...
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Can we use a copyrighted material if there is no copyright information and there is no way to contact the author [duplicate]
I want to use
http://data.whicdn.com/images/28250497/we-are-never-satisfied_large.jpg
As cover of my book.
There is a watermark saying supermegatrolled.com
However, it's unlikely that ...
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Can I use others' content on my own website without their permission?
I would like to ask if is it legal to put someone content on own website (content will be changed to match my own design) without asking the owner of that site for permission. I would like to get some ...
