News!! Tools For Applying Copyright Protection To Your Blog

This article is most the steps you lot tin give notice receive got to apply copyright protection to your blog.

Overview

how copyright applies to blogs inwards rattling full general terms.

This is a to a greater extent than detailed expression at the things to consider if you lot desire to protect your "stuff" (ie words, pictures, tunes, blog-design, code, etc) from beingness used past times other people without permission.  It covers:

• Deciding what restrictions you lot desire to apply
• Telling readers what the policies are
• Physically stopping people from making copies of your work
• Making it obvious when your move is copied

Decide on your copyright policy

The root pace inwards applying copyright to your weblog is deciding whether people are allowed to brand copies of your work, too nether what conditions.

Many people initially say "it's mine, no i else tin give notice brand whatever copies".

But some people desire to part their materials too aren't looking for anything inwards render - thence the opened upwards copyright too Creative Commons approaches.  

Other people are willing to part provided they larn some of the credit for doing the move and/or some money.  Both the Wall Street Journal (Curse of the Greedy Copyright Holders too Their Fee-Seeking Lawyers) too YouTube's Head of User Experience (Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks most copyright - equally presented at TED) receive got some pretty expert arguments most how sharing tin give notice brand to a greater extent than revenue inwards the long run.  And thinking most what you lot might, realistically, exercise when soul breaks the constabulary too makes a re-create of your cloth may brand a policy that allows copies-provided-credit-is-given to a greater extent than appealing.

Ultimately the determination most what policies to apply is yours - but you ask to create upwards one's take heed what policies you're going to follow earlier you lot tin give notice exercise anything most them.

Telling people what they tin give notice (or cannot) do

Once you've decided what copyright rules apply to your blog, it's expert to tell your blog-readers what permissions you lot are willing to give for purpose of your material:

• If you lot don't desire to give whatever full general permissions, you lot powerfulness position text amongst the phrase "© YOUR-BLOG-NAME" inwards a prominent position.
  If you lot have a designer template, so the Attributes gadget already has a plain where you lot tin give notice position copyright, provided you lot haven't removed it.    Or you lot may precisely desire to add a text-gadget the same way you lot would add together whatever other type of gadget - if you lot position it higher upwards or below your Blog Post gadget, so it volition exhibit upwards amongst every unmarried post including ones that you've already published.

• If you lot are willing to give permission, but solely on a case-by-case footing - say so.  And tell people how they tin give notice brand it affect to hash out using your work.

• If you lot are happy to give some full general permissions (eg people tin give notice re-create your cloth so long equally they attribute it to you), you lot powerfulness investigate the add the HTML to your weblog yourself.

• To protect photographs or artworks, you lot could position a copyright declaration correct within the image, either rattling patently or equally a faded-yet-visible watermark.  That way, anyone who sees a re-create that soul has made volition know that they photos are genuinely yours.

Stopping people from copying your work

Physically stopping people from beingness most to brand copies of  move is some other approach.

There are scripts that you lot tin give notice add together to your weblog that disable the right-click selection for anyone who is viewing the page: this makes it harder to copy-and-paste text or to relieve pictures.  However I don't recommend this approach: it's tardily for tech-savvy people to disable the scripts or to move around them (eg to expression at your page source code too re-create the painting exhibit location from it), too because it stops your viewers from doing other things (eg opening links inwards a novel window) that they should last able to do.

Another selection is to halt people from copying text from your blog. As amongst disabling right-click, I don't much similar this approach, too don't use it: equally amongst disabling right-clicks, it doesn't apply to RSS-feed or electronic mail subscribers, too a determined copycat tin give notice either disable Javascript, or receive got a screen shot too OCR it, or fifty-fifty precisely re-type the content.  But it powerfulness last suitable for some blogs.   To exercise it, add this CSS dominion to your template:

.post-body {
-webkit-touch-callout: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: -moz-none;
-ms-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}

One way to protect photographs is to relieve them equally a fairly low resolution earlier you lot upload them:  this agency they expression ok web-pages (yours too anyone else's), but receive got rattling depression character if people travail to impress them or purpose them inwards places similar a newspaper.   If you lot don't desire to cut down the resolution, you lot tin give notice remove the powerfulness to click on them, so that they don't opened upwards inwards a novel window:  this won't halt people who tin give notice read the source HTML behind your page, but it volition deter your average photo-copier.

If you lot desire to protect music you lot receive got composed or videos you've made, you lot powerfulness investigate registering your content amongst YouTube's Audio ID too Video ID system.   This won't halt other people from making copies of your move inwards other places, but it volition halt them from uploading copies (or derived works, eg their ain video amongst some of your music) dorsum to YouTube - or at to the lowest degree give you lot some options for proverb what should laissez passer on if soul tries to exercise so.

Make copies obvious

Rather than trying to halt people from making copies, an other approach is to only brand the master source obvious to anyone who looks at the copy.

Watermarks:

Adding a some partially-transparent text to photos or videos deters people who powerfulness re-create your move (because it volition last obvious that they've copied it), too makes the master source clear to anyone who sees a copy.  Most photo-manipulation tools at i time receive got tools for adding text to photos.  Make for sure you lot overstep along a rubber high-quality, un-watermarked re-create of any  photos that you lot tending about, equally good equally showing the altered i on your blog.

Cross-linking:

Long-term add a Facebook "like" or "send button" push to private posts equally good equally to your whole blog?)), too to halt repeating myself. But it's also a expert tools for discouraging determined copy-cats:  they don't genuinely desire to link to me, so if they purpose my cloth they'll receive got to edit lots of links). And the casual or automated ones (who don't bother editing the links) precisely destination upwards sending traffic to me.

Use features that are built into other file types:

If you lot purpose your weblog to distribute other items (eg templates, eBooks, diagrams), you lot powerfulness similar to consider more subtle ways of either is telling people most the copyright provisions, or precisely giving yourself the credit for move you've done.

Example:  i of my sites gives away planning templates that are made amongst MS Word too PowerPoint.  I'm happy for them to last copied too changed, provided the copyright attribution is left intact.  Microsoft's File / Properties characteristic has a link to my website inwards each template, too frequently inwards Windows Explorer these values are shown when soul hovers their mouse of the files.  Over fourth dimension I await it to last a expert tool for edifice the recognition of my blog.

"Signing" your RSS feed

If you lot position  a statement, crediting your weblog equally the source into your RSS feed, so every single item that is posted has your blog-name attached: copycats either ask to edit it out manually, or larn out it inwards too exhibit the the world where they got their content from.

For representative the trouble I receive got added to the feed of the weblog you lot are reading right at i time is:

This article is © Copyright – All rights reserved - .
You may discover translated versions of this article on non-English linguistic communication blogs provided you lot acknowledge  as the master source.

Blogger has a characteristic for setting this up:

1. Go to Settings > Other > Site Feed 
2. Add the words you lot desire to purpose to the Post feed footer box, 
3. Click Save Settings.

Registering your move amongst a copyright-service

There are a issue of services around that permit you lot "register" the copyright for an item.  This powerfulness give you lot peace-of-mind, or show to purpose inwards for sure legal situations.

But it won't brand whatever deviation to whether people brand unauthorised copies of your blog-contents, so I'm non going into details most it here.

The adjacent article inwards this series, Dealing amongst people who receive got copied your work, has to a greater extent than exceptional most how these services move too what they're genuinely useful for - too suggestions most some other, perchance to a greater extent than useful, steps you lot tin give notice take.

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Taking activity when soul has made an unauthorised re-create of cloth from your blog

How to add together a gadget, using Blogger

Putting 3rd political party HTML (eg a Creative Commons licence) into your Blog

Stopping the pictures inwards your weblog from beingness "clickable"

Finding a Picture's location (URL) inwards Picasa-web-albums

Removing the Attribution Gadget from your Blog

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