How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your Brand: Chapter 4 of 10: Copyright

Next, you might need to pull your hair out over getting copyright protection for your written work. But wait a minute, no you don’t! Copyright is granted to you automatically by the nice people that drafted and agreed the international copyright treaties. Such copyright protection exists for anything you write, generally provided that it is your own material. To avoid plagiarism and copyright breach for using other people’s work, consider referencing them or getting consent from them first: it’s just like being back at university writing thousands of words that nobody will ever read; unless YoublawG them. As Forest Gump might say, that's all WardblawG has to say about that. A branch of copyright and particularly relevant for web 2.0, Creative Commons Licences are the subject of Chapter 5 of this series, which follows this post.

Next, it is useful to have a basic understanding of copyright laws. Copyright protection exists for anything you write, generally provided that it is your own material. To avoid plagiarism and copyright breach for using other people’s work, consider referencing them or getting consent from them first.

A branch of copyright and particularly relevant for web 2.0, Creative Commons Licences are the subject of Chapter 5 of this series, which follows this post.

For a more interesting angle on copyright protection online, see this Quora question on copyright protection as it applies to tweets.

Music video below which shows how the boundaries of copyright protection have stretched via YouTube and other online video publishing sites.