How to copyright your digital works

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Copyright Law: 12 Dos and Don’ts – Click the title link and find 12 Do’s and Dont’s that will clarify what you can and what you can not do as an online publisher.

As the blogging phenomenon expands, copyright concerns become quite important. Technology makes it really easy to copy, modify and share information, whether we talk about text, images, audio or video. The problem is that the vast majority of people do not have a clear understanding of the Copyright Law, which might result in illegal and costly mistakes.

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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved.

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This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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MyFreeCopyright.com – protection for Literary Works Visual Arts Performing Arts Sound Recordings

How does the MyFreeCopyright process work? Registering with My Free Copyright is instant and can be proven in a court of law. MyFreeCopyright provides a third-party, non-repudiation, registered dating of your original digital creation. By using this service, you publicly associate your digital copyright and defined rights to you.

So, how does MyFreeCopyright date register my copyright? Every digital file has a unique makeup of bits and bytes which is its fingerprint. MyFreeCopyright captures your original creation’s fingerprint, stores the fingerprint in a database and sends a copy of the fingerprint to you in an email. The email contains the verified date; the fingerprint verifies the digital creation, and your email address verifies it belongs to you. (NOTE: You must keep the email with this fingerprint. This email is your date registered copyright proof and protection for your copyright.)

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MyFreeCopyright stores the fingerprint as well, which allows you and others to return to this service and verify the copyright.

I wanted to let you know about an exciting new service that MyFreeCopyright is now affiliated with called CopyrightSpot.

CopyrightSpot allows you to discover all the spots where your licensed and unlicensed original writing lives on the web.

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creators.icopyright.com – protection for Literary Works Visual Arts Performing Arts Sound Recordings

If you care enough about your content to add a copyright notice to it, then an iCopyright ©reator tag is for you. ©reator tags are like domain names and email addresses, they are one-of-a-kind. Your tag will resolve to a unique webpage that displays your rights and permissions. Simply affix your personalized interactive ©reator tag to your works, whether they are published online or offline, to preserve your copyrights, promote your reputation, track who is using your works, and extend licenses and permissions to those who wish to use your works. Your works will never be orphans if they have a ©reator tag.

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Your FREE ©reator tag enhances the traditional copyright notice. It serves as a virtual rights manager. Wherever your content goes, your personalized ©reator tag goes with it, communicating that the content belongs to you. It provides three powerful benefits that a traditional copyright notice alone does not provide: rights, reach and revenue.

Related posts found in this blog:
Content theft: The come and get it solution
Splog Off! Dealing with content theft
SplogSpot: Dealing with content thieves
Copyright: Fair Use Limitations
What is copyright?

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