It's Easy to Get Copyrighted!

by Michael Smith

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 Man's 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!

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