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We run into an occasional question, inwards Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger, almost content protection.
Before the Internet, most authors would but register a copyright, using their governmental registration. The USA, for instance, has "Copyright.Gov", which is at nowadays share of the the States Library of Congress.
Many other countries create got their ain registration services.
Whatever service is provided past times your government, presumably they volition allow y'all register online content, such equally your weblog - or mayhap pictures, inwards your blog.
A authorities operate may register your work.
Even if registered, a weblog won't hold out sacrosanct. The USA authorities - too in all probability most other Earth governments - volition register your work. Enforcement of protection won't hold out on a vii x 24 basis, amongst automatic too immediate prosecution of offenders.
As a Blogger weblog publisher, you're non getting special protection from Google, either. If exactly about other Blogger weblog possessor is audacious plenty to steal content from your blog, too exceed it off equally his own, y'all tin complain to Google.
Google, Tumblr, too WordPress volition protect y'all - from abusers using their services.
Given a righteous complaint from y'all - or from whatsoever other Blogger weblog possessor - or possessor of whatsoever weblog or website hosted anywhere on the Internet, Google volition accept action, on your behalf. But their action, when taken, is express to anybody who publishes an infringing Blogger weblog (or Google website).
If someone publishes an infringing WordPress website, WordPress volition accept similar action. Likewise, Tumblr volition accept action, against an infringement using their service. But neither Google, Tumblr, or WordPress tin aid you, if your infringer uses an anonymous hosting service located inwards China, Nigeria, or Russia.
Any electrical load which y'all register volition hold out subject to scrutiny. Legal penalties, for fraudulently placed simulated complaints, are reputed to hold out substantial.
Third political party registration may or may non hold out useful.
There are diverse online copyright registration services (some free) which volition render y'all a decorative icon, for your blog. But if y'all install a pretty icon on your blog, read the fine impress on the website. Some may hold out no to a greater extent than than exactly about other devious traffic generation scheme, to produce goodness the website owner.
Some online legal assistance services may offering copyright registration - but are they providing whatsoever to a greater extent than than registration amongst whatever governmental registration operate protects you? Read the fine impress - particularly if they accuse for their services.
Read the fine print!
The bottom line? If y'all direct governmental protection, either similar a shot registration or using a soul online service, read the fine print. And visit what y'all would hold out doing, if your rights are infringed upon past times a Google, Tumblr, or WordPress publisher - or past times ane using a 3rd political party host, registered inwards Vanuatu.
How produce I preclude other weblog too website authors from stealing my posts?This is a query that has plagued authors, for centuries. It's non new, inwards online life.
Before the Internet, most authors would but register a copyright, using their governmental registration. The USA, for instance, has "Copyright.Gov", which is at nowadays share of the the States Library of Congress.
Many other countries create got their ain registration services.
Whatever service is provided past times your government, presumably they volition allow y'all register online content, such equally your weblog - or mayhap pictures, inwards your blog.
A authorities operate may register your work.
Even if registered, a weblog won't hold out sacrosanct. The USA authorities - too in all probability most other Earth governments - volition register your work. Enforcement of protection won't hold out on a vii x 24 basis, amongst automatic too immediate prosecution of offenders.
As a Blogger weblog publisher, you're non getting special protection from Google, either. If exactly about other Blogger weblog possessor is audacious plenty to steal content from your blog, too exceed it off equally his own, y'all tin complain to Google.
Google, Tumblr, too WordPress volition protect y'all - from abusers using their services.
Given a righteous complaint from y'all - or from whatsoever other Blogger weblog possessor - or possessor of whatsoever weblog or website hosted anywhere on the Internet, Google volition accept action, on your behalf. But their action, when taken, is express to anybody who publishes an infringing Blogger weblog (or Google website).
If someone publishes an infringing WordPress website, WordPress volition accept similar action. Likewise, Tumblr volition accept action, against an infringement using their service. But neither Google, Tumblr, or WordPress tin aid you, if your infringer uses an anonymous hosting service located inwards China, Nigeria, or Russia.
Any electrical load which y'all register volition hold out subject to scrutiny. Legal penalties, for fraudulently placed simulated complaints, are reputed to hold out substantial.
Third political party registration may or may non hold out useful.
There are diverse online copyright registration services (some free) which volition render y'all a decorative icon, for your blog. But if y'all install a pretty icon on your blog, read the fine impress on the website. Some may hold out no to a greater extent than than exactly about other devious traffic generation scheme, to produce goodness the website owner.
Some online legal assistance services may offering copyright registration - but are they providing whatsoever to a greater extent than than registration amongst whatever governmental registration operate protects you? Read the fine impress - particularly if they accuse for their services.
Read the fine print!
The bottom line? If y'all direct governmental protection, either similar a shot registration or using a soul online service, read the fine print. And visit what y'all would hold out doing, if your rights are infringed upon past times a Google, Tumblr, or WordPress publisher - or past times ane using a 3rd political party host, registered inwards Vanuatu.