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Copyright your "original works of authorship"

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http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wwp

What Works Are Protected?

Copyright protects “original works of authorship” that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories:

  1. literary works;
  2. musical works, including any accompanying words
  3. dramatic works, including any accompanying music
  4. pantomimes and choreographic works
  5. pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
  6. motion pictures and other audiovisual works
  7. sound recordings
  8. architectural works

These categories should be viewed broadly. For example, computer programs and most “compilations” may be registered as “literary works”; maps and architectural plans may be registered as “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works.”

http://creativecommons.org/

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

We're a nonprofit organization. Everything we do — including the software we create — is free.

I added the following copyright link to my website. All the legal mambo jumbo is written up by and linked to http://creativecommons.org/. I'd rather keep everything on my site, but somethings are easier and wiser handled by someone else. I'm debating about adding a field in my database to print the appropriate copyright information per page. I need the one below, any restrictions my friends may pose for their works, and an open gaming license added at some point.

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All images and forms of writing at this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

How do you copyright your stuff?


Understand this lad, fate is a fickle lady. Work with the hand you're dealt and you may just be able to run your flag up the pole. Don't, and well, you may just find your mast cut down.

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