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Lissa wrote:
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Hollering Lissa  ! But anyone who blogs, I would appreciate your comments on copyright ...
I noticed that many of you have a copyright listed on the sidebar of your blog. Can you tell me why and how you do this?
Is it as simple as stating that all your original material is copyrighted and that's that ... or is there something more official you need to do? And how do you make that little copyright symbol?
Of course I've written all of 16 posts so far,  but I was wondering about this and thought I'd ask. Thanks!
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bumping - I'm curious too!
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amyable wrote:
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I have wondered what that term "bumping" meant, Amy!
I guess I'm giving this thread another "bump" this morning ...
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Dawn,
I'm the world's lamest blogger, so I couldn't begin to tell you how to get the copyright symbol onto your blog.
However, I can tell you that you own all rights to anything you write, on your blog or elsewhere, unless you sell or give away those rights. It's not a bad idea to remind folks in cyberspace that you do own that copyright (via the symbol or the words to that effect). You wouldn't need to do that, say, on a magazine article you sent in to a publisher...they already know the copyright laws.
In cyberspace, though, people tend to plagiarize very, very freely. That's why, I'd imagine, people like Lissa, who write for a living, are putting forth a gentle reminder that using anything beyond a small quote from their blog is a violation of copyright.
You'd be amazed at how many writers find their works published - under another byline - on the internet.
Anyway, the other thing I should mention is that once you publish your writing on your blog, you can't sell "first rights" to that piece to a publisher (specifically, of a magazine) because your blogging is the first publication of those words. You could only sell reprint rights. I'm not as sure about blog postings being combined into a book, but perhaps someone else knows about this. (Just in case you were thinking of writing articles and using your blog posts in them.)
Hope this helps. I sure wish I were smarter about setting up blogs, because I need to move mine and I know it will be truly agonizing.
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Yup, Nancy is right about everything. You own the copyright unless you give it away. Putting a copyright notice on your site can't protect you from plagiarists, but it IS a reminder/deterrent and it would be one additional point in your favor if you ever took someone to court over a theft.
There is something called a Creative Commons License which allows you to actually register your work, offering an additional layer of protection, but I don't deem it worth the effort for my blog posts....I would be livid if somebody swiped my work and passed it off as his own, of course.
The HTML for a copyright symbol is: © <--LOL! The forum software automatically converted my HTML to the symbol! OK, what you want is the following, but without spaces between:
& copy ;
And to put a copyright notice in your Typepad sidebar, create a Typelist (or use one you've already created), make sure it is configured to "display notes," and write the notice in the notes section of one of the entries.
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Thank you Nancy and Lissa. It makes sense to me now! I felt quite embarrassed to ask about this, being such a new blogger and all, but I saw it on so many blogs I thought I would ask.
I can't believe it, but I just did it on the first try!  Thanks for the tip, Lissa.
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as someone who has been the victim on more than one occasion of plagiarism on the 'net (and currently dealing with 2 more), this is something that i take seriously. bloggers just don't get the same respect that traditional media does, not yet anyway. not even a copyright symbol is enough as a deterrent.
more info
here (pdf file re Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
also here -- these folks are anti-DMCA
and here, from Creative Commons
especially those of you who put any kind of depth or spend considerable time on your posts, it's something to consider. aggregators are coming up right and left and it's very difficult to stop them.
here's a good tool to see if someone's copying your stuff.
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Thanks for the heads-up Meredith. I have yet to use any online images because I'm just not sure how it all works. But there are only so many things I can take photos of myself!
Speaking of copyright, and I know this was discussed in another thread, but I am still waiting for a call back from my old paper about using my food articles on my blog.  Apparently no one in the newsroom A. answers the phone, B. returns messages, and C. knows the answer to my question (gosh how I miss those days  ) ...
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