I believe that if you read the "Terms of Service" for that site (which is located as a link off the homepage, along with all the other legal mumbo-jumbo) you will find that you can not post copyrighted material on that site. Furthermore, since it is a "public access" site you cannot protect by copyright anythiing that you choose to produce and post there.
It depends what kind of material and how much. There are laws protecting the fair use of copyrighted material, but lifting an entire website wholesale is plagiarism and copyright infringement.
2010.
While a patent or copyright is held by a company or a person, no one else can use that product or copyrighted material (also known as intellectual property) without the permission of the patent/copyright holder which usually involves some kind of compensation. If someone wants to use one of these products or materials, and can't come to an agreement with the patent/copyright holder, then they are motivated to produce a variation or an improvement on it and get their own patent/copyright for themselves. New products and materials are developed all the time to compete with an existing patent or copyright.
It's a civil violation of federal law.
A summary generally wouldn't require any kind of disclaimer. As long as you're not quoting heavily from the original material, you wouldn't be even close to infringing.If you are quoting heavily, the only disclaimer that might help would be one saying that you are quoting by permission of the copyright holder. But that will only help if you really dohave the permission of the copyright holder.
Manmade material
Sorry. We do not provide that kind of answer. That would violate copyright.
Copyright falls under the category of Intellectual property.A copyright is considered intangible personal property. See related question link.
Patent, kind of, except your analogy is turned around. Copyright protects literature, and patent protects inventions. Thus: copyright:literature::patent:invention OR literature:copyright::invention:patent
Anything other than open source software is protected by copyright; shareware and freeware may be free, but are still protected. Software that is purely functional (e.g., assembly code to perform a basic operation) is not copyrightable. Software created by any employee of the US government is not copyrighted in the USA.
How Kind of You was created in 2005.
Virtually every time a new kind of technology becomes available, there are months or even years of confusion while we wait for the copyright law to catch up.