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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Can I remove the footer copyright from a bought website theme?
I'd like to know if it's legal to remove the footer copyright from a website theme, in this specific case a Wordpress theme.
I've modified the header and the menu, created a logo for the site and put ...
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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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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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How to deal with overly aggressive “Link Take Down Demands”?
I've been receiving a large number of emails recently requesting I clean from link spam from my forum. Initially the emails were very polite and professional, and I was happy to remove the links. ...
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Add copyright notice to a website
I want to add a copyright notice to a website I created.
Something like
(c) Me 2010. All rights reserved.
I am aware that everything written by someone is automatically copyrighted (if I'm not ...
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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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Legal standing for a copyright notice placed by prior web developer? (long backstory)
Let's say a prior web developer placed a copyright notice on a website in the web developer's and not the client's name. The prior web developer has been hostile and actually took the site down for ...
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Are copyright notices really required?
Ever since I made my first web page 13 years ago I have followed the pattern of showing a copyright notice in the footer of each page.
Over the years the format of this notice has changed in the ...
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Does having an old copyright date on a website have any negative SEO impact?
In that a client feels having an old copyright date displayed in the footer across a site will have a negative SEO impact? My opinion is that it should make very little difference SEO wise and should ...
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User Upload of Images & Copyright Issues
I have a hand-coded site. I just started working on a strategy that will allow users to integrate their images and drawings into the site. The problem is that I know users will start uploading images ...
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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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Who's to blame for copyright content, webmaster or site/business owner?
If I upload content that is clearly a violation of copyrights am I legally responsible for such content or is it only the owner of the site and business?
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How does delicious.com avoid being sued for copyright infringement?
With the recent redesign of delicious.com, they've added a much more graphical home page. The site continues to be a service for people to bookmark and share websites they come across on the web. The ...
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Does a DMCA takedown require you to prevent the same file from being uploaded again?
If I allow users to upload media (images, videos, etc.) and I get a DMCA takedown notice for a specific file, do I have to prevent users from uploading that same file in the future?
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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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Is there a service available to help continuously check for plagiarism online?
We have a website with several thousand pages and it is frequently copied elsewhere; we'd like to know when and where this takes place to so we can make sure we are attributed correctly.
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Can embedding a content from another website be considered as a violation of copyright law?
I would like to embed a content from another website (a webcam object) to my website. Can it be considered as a violation of copyright law? Both my website and the embedded are within EU. There is no ...
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Website copyright- Should I use my name or the website's name
If possible, I'd like to know whether to use my name or the website's name when making the copyright notice for my website.
I read here that when I add a copyright notice to my website I should ...
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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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How should creative commons attribution for images be shown?
Clicking through from Flickr to the CreativeCommons.org definition for "Some Rights Reserved" you find that you can reuse an image as long as you provide attribution.
If we want to use the image in ...
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Images in blog posts
I see a lot of blogs (coding horror for example) that seem to feature random pictures in the entries.
Would I be correct in saying they probably didn't seek permission to use those images? What are ...
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Reporting Copied (Stolen) Product Descriptions to Google
If a competitor copies your unique product descriptions on an eCommerce site, what is the proper way to report the copied content to google? Do you have to take different action for Web Organic search ...
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We've had our content copied under a different URL - why and what do we do?
We have a problem. We've noticed a large amount of traffic showing up on our Google Analytics. Upon further investigation we have found that we've had our content copied under a different URL.
Our ...
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Blatant copyright theft
Found a user on the forum trying to solicit business for his website, a good user reported it and I checked the website out.
Firstly and most dangerously it's attempting to sell our original ...
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If someone takes a photo of my product and posts it on the web do I have the right to use it on my website?
If someone takes a photo of my product and posts it on the web do I have the right to use it on my website?
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Patenting a Web Application before launch?
While discussing a website idea I had with friends and worked on it, they told me to be wary of theft regarding the website. Since the code I'd be working on would be mostly Javascript and HTML, the ...
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Responsibility in case of copyright infringing user-submitted content
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seemed like one of the better options.
Example here. Say, I have an online library where users can submit e-books and PDFs they created. All fine ...
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Do you need to have filed a Copyright to enforce the DMCA
I lead IS for my organization and the other day we found out a competitor stole all of the Copy Text from our corporate site and pasted it nearly verbatim to their own (the only changes were to ...
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How to prove content is mine after somtime using web
I need some suggestions as to how proved the ownership of content in case it is stolen using Web exclusively and that'd be the interest of every Webmaster publishing any content.
I mean I've plenty ...
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title, content copied and title, name used! trademark issue?
I have a video website, server and domain bought 3 months 1 week ago, website actually started 1 month 1 week ago. Domain name plain and simple, easy to remember, bought with a yearly fee, nothing ...
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Foreign logos on my site - disclaimer
on my app website are the logos of Twitter, Blogger, Facebook, Windows and others to describe the functionality of the application.
Do I need a disclaimer that the logos are not mine or something ...
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What to do about features of a website copied by another bigger one?
Early last year I implemented several new and unique features on Neocamera and most have been copied by DPReview.
They announced the latest one this morning. It is called 'My Short List' there while ...
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New website, plans to go large. How do you protect yourself?
I'm planning to create a new site that (in hopes) will make it to a decent state of popularity and use. I have made sites before, but they weren't serious, with any intended purpose other than ...
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In the website for a mobile app, is it legal to show photos of actual phones?
In most websites that showcase mobile apps, photos of actual phones are shown as an example of what the app looks like. Sometimes, the phone's brand is visible; other times, the device is clearly an ...
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Is it a bad practice to register sntsh.com if my name is Santosh?
My name is Santosh but I can't register a santosh.com because it is already taken. Most extensions for Santosh are already taken. I was trying to register a domain with .sh extension but santo.sh ...
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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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Using copyrighted images on website that generates CPA based revenue?
What I want to do is use copyrighted blizzard images throughout my site. Their copyright policy is as follows:
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/legal-faq.html
The website generates revenue ...
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Prevent HTML files downloaded from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified?
How to prevent my HTML files downloaded to a particular system from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified?
Is there any tool or method out? Well, ...
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Is it o.k. to have a domain name which happens to also be the title of a book?
For example, I would like to use the domain "stuckinthemiddle.com", but "Stuck in the Middle" is also the title of a book. Can I get sued on copyright terms?
I checked this question, and according to ...
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Using licensed custom fonts for commercial site
What are the legalities regarding using licensed fonts for webpages? It will be used for a for a commercial site. I do not want to get into trouble by using it without a license, (although I do hear a ...
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Am I allowed to link to the movie posters from IMDB?
I am planning on making a site that deals specifically with movie trailers. I would like to know if I am allowed to link to the movie posters from imdb and display them on my site.
I am mainly ...
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What's the legal way to stream music online?
It's really hard getting a definite answer on this so I'm going to ask it here. Is there a legal way to stream new music on a website without getting artist consent first. There seems to be a lot of ...
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How to deal with author rights when building a website
I was thinking about developing a website that would involve photos and was wondering how to deal with the legal/author rights aspects.
If someone could direct me to some resources to find out, I ...
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Non-intentional hosting of material that is protected by copyright law
I am interested how copyright law works in the case of Rapidshare, Youtube and etc. Just hypothetically speaking, what if I create a website for uploading and sharing MP3 files, and some users start ...
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Is it legal to show RSS feeds on my website from another website
I want to display the feeds from multiple news website on my website and create a site which would be something like http://paper.li
So is it legal to display those feeds directly on my website? The ...
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Better to ignore competitor who looks like a copycat, or send a notice?
My new SAAS product is a month or two from launch, and I've had a temporary (trademark approved) site up for a long time, and announced it publicly at a conference in January to potential customers ...
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Copyright infringement on an image from an article of mine
I just received a notification from my hosting provider which told me that a certain company sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") copyright infringement notice regarding an image found in ...
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How much is not too much? using snippets from other copyrighted sources
I'm going to add a news page to my website which will include short snippets from other copyrighted sources, I'm going to only mention the title and maybe a short descriptions and link them to the ...
