The Reality of Copyright – Some Free Protection
On the Internet, the theft of intellectual material is rampant. There are numerous technical ways and tricks to scrape content from websites and republish it. Google says that the original source will not be penalized for duplicate content, and that subsequent publishers will get little credit for it. But, the search engines aren’t the only concern. It’s just not right to have others steal your content.
Another reality: it is expensive and rarely worthwhile to pursue content theft for most of us, especially bloggers. The good news is that there is a great deal of copying of material by those who do not know any better. It’s a bit like a simple door lock, in that copyright registration will help us to keep honest people honest. And there is a nice free resource to help you.
MyFreeCopyright.com will take your blog posts from your feed and give them a unique identifier, with dated origination information. You can display their logo on your page, and it will link back to your protected material on their site, with all protection information. Some will be deterred just by the logo and visiting the link. Others, once you locate someone copying your content, can be persuaded to pull it down when you send them a link to the copyright registration of the copied material.
[important]A short video of how it works, and an example from an actual blog, is below as Premium Content:[/important] {+++}
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