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Posted: **Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:14 pm**

how do u own or register a copyright?

i mean, do u basically register ur own copyrights, like when u put ? 2005 mysite.com on the footer of ur site

or is there a place where u go and register ur stuffs that belong to u?

Posted: **Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:26 pm**

You register a copyright through the government.. most people who put the stuff on the bottom of thier site doesn't have it copywritten.. and just puts it there to warn of people.. usually you can't get a copyright for a site unless your selling something and your site was built by hand through an accredited web designer. Which would have all his work copywritten so no one could steal his work. Information in the internet itself cannot be copywritten nor can a design that has been mass marketed for free sharing. So before you go and get a copyright ask yourself will the Register People look at you like your retarded.

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:33 am**

Well TheCrymsonLegends, if i am not wrong, out there i think you are mixing up two different things. One being "copyright" and the other being "trademark". Anybody can just go ahead and put their copyright on the content that is genuinely theirs from the scratch i.e. not even a patch of it should not be scripted or designed by somebody else unless and untill he is not an employee with your company. However if you want to register your trademark, then you need to get it registered from a governing athourity. Also one must take care that the trademarks also come in few different limitations, some being just local while some are intrenational.

Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:28 am**

Well SHAdmin, if I am not mistaken if you have no proof that something is Copywritten by you then anyone can steal your design. Trademarks would be for Slogans and certain designs in Advertizing or a Color Skeam for your Product. Copyrights are simular to Pattens which indicate from the Governing Authority that you own the Copyright and anyone therefore stealing anything of yours that is Copyrighted you can take Legal Action against them.

Example: Metallica Vs. Napster - Napster lost the the LawSuit against them from Metallica because Metallica proved a way that Napster broke the Copyright Laws by freely distributing music. If Metallica had just thrown a Copyright on thier work without geting it registered then they would of lost the LawSuit.

For Example again: A Trademark is like Gateway's Cow Logo, or Batman's Chest Logo. Yes you have to register them aswell, but if you don't have a Registered Copyright on your work then anyone can use it. Yes most people just throw a ? on thier work and claim they got a Copyright on it, but most the time they don't.

Posted: **Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:09 pm**

i learnd something new tday!

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:03 pm**

Yes i register my own copy right

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:16 pm**

I Put My Own CopyRight
Hahahahahhaha

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:37 pm**

I think its necessary to everybody to put his copy rights incase of
he is the designer og the work that he did

Posted: **Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:09 pm**

Well I Just Edited Their Design
But I Am Currently Creating One Myself Using BlueVoda

Posted: **Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:27 pm**

You both are never mistaken