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A confirmed copyright violation is a very quick way to have your web site taken off line, and to find yourself in a court room being sued under copyright laws or as a violation of the USA’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. If you want to use materials that someone else has copyrighted, then you must get permission, preferably in writing, to use that material on your web site. You might also have to include on your web page a copyright notice, and a statement that you have permission to use the material. For example, a notice might look like this: Copyright © 2006 by Jane Jones and the Ajax Newspaper, of Cloudy Mountain Valley, Florida, and used with permission. Interestingly, an item (photograph, artwork, text, performance, sound recording, etc.) is copyrighted in the U.S.A. at the moment of creation, whether or not the creator registers it with the US Copyright Office (or the similar office in their country), but it might not be eligible for statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation. (Meaning: the copyright holder might not be able to successfully sue for use of their work, if the work is not registered. But that might not stop them from taking you to court.) You can read a lot more about US copyright at the US Copyright Office web site. I will not knowingly add someone else’s copyrighted material to your web site unless you have their permission.
revised: March 22, 2007
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