Yes, if the web design legally belongs to you. Add © copyright YEAR NAME OF COPYRIGHT HOLDER to the bottom of each page of the website. This will signal to honest people that the web design is copyrighted and may not be used elsewhere.
Copyright affects what you can do with others' existing material, and what others can do you yours. If you're designing a web page, you want to ensure everything from the code to the sounds and images is either copyright-free or properly licensed. In exchange, you can claim copyright on the resulting page, and stop others from using it without your permission.
The author of a creative design is the owner of the copyright automatically.
How copyright protection impacts the download of web resources?
Copyright someone elses design
If the design meets the minimum requirements for copyright protection, yes.
Aspects of the design that are entirely your original work, such as a piped or carved design, may be protected by copyright as a work of visual art; the US Copyright Office has asserted that permanence is not required for protection.
The web is not a place. The web is a communication protocol that is used for connecting computers together. The laws of the nation where the computer is located, or the user, or the copyright owners, determine what copyright laws apply, regardless of how the information is accessed.
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No, everything on the web is not copyrighted. You have to claim copyright by placing a copyright symbol or getting a license claiming it's protected.
The web address for the U.S. Copyright Office is www.copyright.gov. This site provides a range of resources related to copyright law, including information on how to register works, search copyright records, and access legal information.
If you control the copyright, anywhere. If you don't control the copyright, and don't have a license, nowhere.
Architectural works are protected by copyright.