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How do you legally copyright content on a website?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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You can protect your creative web content the same way you legally protect copyright of anything else: with the law.

The best legal protection, in the USA, is to register your copyright soon after your first publication of new materials, then notify infringers that they may be liable for up to $100,000 for each violation, regardless of whether it actually causes you damage.

Otherwise, your copyright begins the moment you record your content in a "tangible form" (i.e., memory), but you cannot legally enforce it until you register it (in the USA) and file a lawsuit, or bring criminal charges.

Note that anything you copy from others, or that is "standardized" or functional material, which everyone has to use, is not protected by your copyright.


Yes but only those parts which would have "sufficient originality" to qualify for protection.
Surely Yes

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