PROTECTING your content online is mandatory, if you don’t want every Tom, Dick and Harry to steal your content.
Myfreecopyright offers free copyright protection for your online content.
Type of contents you can get copyrighted by Myfreecopyright
Files
(Images, photos, poetry, music, lyrics, ebooks etc.)
Blogs/podcasts
(Any RSS, Atom or XML feed) and
Webpage
(Any webpage, social profile page or HTML)
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How it works
The whole thing is as easy as ABC. And it is free – which is why it landed in my blog in the first place!
First, open an email account somewhere, like, Google or Yahoo………no, what am I saying……..you do have an email already, don’t you? 
OK, I promise to be more serious from now on……. btw, what’s that on your forehead? OK, OK, I know, we are dealing with a serious issue here! Thing is, it is so easy that I am having a ball!
Register at Myfreecopyright and activate your account by clicking the link they send you in an email.
Upload a file from your computer or paste a URL (of a feed or webpage) . Now wait a while while they extract the necessary information.
You will be given a copyright message, which you can change if you want.
Your content is now date and time registered by Myfreecopyright.
You are given a button to display in your blog/site to show to potential thieves and thugs that your material is protected. Now, this button is not just another button!
Everytime you copyright a material, a digital fingerprint for that material is created and the corrsponding button includes the information of the digital fingerprint. When clicked, the button takes the viewer to the corresponding Myfreecopyright page that includes all the necessary information including the copyright text and digital fingerprint.
For more information, click these links from their FAQ:
What is a digital fingerprint?
What do the numbers and letters in the fingerprint mean?
What does MCN stand for?
They also send you an email containing copyright information of the material and you should NEVER delete that email. If your content is stolen, then that email will save your skin!
I recommend that you read the whole FAQ. It is very rich in information and since their whole service is meant even for complete novices, it is a very easy read.
Furthermore, if you have any suggestions or questions, you can contact them!
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This whole thing is so easy and it’s free. So, I shouldn’t have any issues, right? But I can’t help it, I don’t like the button! Look under the blog post. The button ought to come in different sizes and shapes – some of us are……. um, aesthetically sensitive!
So in future I am gonna use the service but use a text link instead!
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Ah thanks! I have been busy for more than a hour or so freecopyrighting! Not only did that for my blog-feeds but also few singular pages (a page of poems, a page of fiction) because WordPress blog pages are not part of the feeds you see…this option is really beneficial.
And the logo…albeit its ugly but kept it you know why? Because the visual image matters, a single line of text is so easily overlooked! They should hire a better artist…you for instance!
I already have licensed my blog through Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No-Derivative Works 2.5 India License which is more renowned…but freecopyrights can do so with pages so is better. Thanks!
i’m, glad you find it useful!
what i really like is the digital fingerprint thingie! and they email you with all the necessary info of each copyrighted material – oh, how very lawyer-ish!
Umm, I am sorry for turning your blog into chat-sessions or Orkut scrapbooks…but what about WordPress blogs in Bangla? I had particular difficult times; here is a link to one of my pages there, selected this page because it has certain discussions (in the comments) regarding difficulties in blogging in our languages in WordPress and viewing it in Opera (watch the middle sidebar, something titled ‘regrets to readers etc’)…here goes: আমি তোমার জন্য আশায় আকাশ ভরিয়ে দেবো…
Not only in Opera! But actually in Firefox!!!
you have landed on the right place to complain!
here is where you can get info about displaying bangla properly in ff. i don’t know about opera though!
how to display bangla properly
don’t forget to tell me if it works!
Extremely thankyous!!! But my readers, dear readers will be in trouble if they don’t have the proper fonts installed! Not my problem though, why didn’t they install Bengali fonts being Bengali themselves?
Incidentally Rupali is such an ugly font! Selected Bangla (or Ekushey)…suits me better.
But netty, did you ever try posting in Bangla? Its such a chore sometimes that writing takes a backseat and fighting with html codes gets all the priorities…actually discussed about that in the page I linked before.
Thanks to you more! ‘Coz I am right now taking Browsershots of my poor little Bangla blog to see how they appear in different browsers and OS…
once again. i am glad to help!
and about typing in bangla, you know for me using the keyboard itself is a chore. it’s a wonder i can type in english! check out this article i did in my other blog!
Give me back pen and paper, I have had enough of computer keyboards!
bangla typing is more difficult, and i dare not try! all my love for bangla will have to be expressed on plain paper! sorry!
and um, maybe requesting your readers to install bangla fonts and also pointing out the url will help!
and gosh! why doesn’t babelfish or google have an english-to-bangla translation option? bangla IS the eighth language of the world, no?
Thank you so much! Not only was my entire blog stolen a few months ago, but articles and photos have been stolen repeatedly. I now watermark some images but this sounds like a perfect solution.
Thank you, thank you!
Incidentally Netty, for just an information…if you ever make a webalbum of your artworks…I think Flickr is the best solution (than Picasa, talking about a Yahoo site and a Google site only) because in the former you are given provisions to protect your things via Creative Commons License which I mentioned earlier.
I haven’t come across many photohosting sites which give this advantage; Picasa doesn’t.
In Flickr, one can search for images which are licensed, for example, with a “Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No-Derivative Work License”…thus leaving no qualms about using others’ images. I can’t use it for profit-making, can’t work more on the image, need to attribute the source…that’s fine for me!
Ok , i have a question : Hiw can you put a copyright , if the stuff on your blog aren’t yours ? isn’t that kinda protect the thief who stole ???
Just wondering…
ellaella,
i’m so sorry to hear about your predicament. it must have hurt! i’m glad to help! and you are most welcome!
an extra special thanks for commenting. most of my readers believe that silence is golden – this article is already one of the highest viewed ones today, but it seems most of my readers would rather read and not say anything! oh well!
life,
thanks for the info. actually this is THE reason why i have qualms about getting my images for my future art blog hosted elsewhere other than wordpress. despite the limitations, i think i will host my images (the ones that really matter) at wordpress.
ano-nyma,
i had a similar question, too!
like, what if a thief does this? then what do we do to prove that THAT wasn’t theirs to copyright???? with a blog the solution might be asking the thief to post something in the blog – which s-he can’t, cos s-he can’t log in. but what about contents like images, lyrics etc??????
u are making my brain swim this morning Nitty LOL …no my question was toward peoples who like me , don’t have any special skill…don’t own anything on their blog . Sure i put a disclaimair like im borrowing u thing blabla…but seeing that every picture on my blog isn’t mine , and if i add the copyright thingy . Does that mean im protecting the thing i borrowed ? or im making a claim on the thing i borrowed ?? cose the copyright is kinda say : That is mine don’t touch !
So putting on that safety copyright : are you protecting what u borrowed so nobody steal the borrowed stuff and create a mirror of u blog ? or are u putting a copyright as in making a claim changing the borrowed to MINE ?
Now i bet u brain is wimming lol
to answer your question : then what do we do to prove that THAT wasn’t theirs to copyright????
I think the date when u make a backup on the copyright server is your only hope to say IM the one who created that see the date..
woho! you have some hot issues here alright!
i think it is ok to put a copyright notice even if you have borrowed content, provided you don’t claim that content is yours! a copyright notice prevents folks from stealing your content verbatim!
and as for my question, ye, that’s a solution provided the blog owner knows about myfreecopyright and is registered there.
but what if a blogger doesn’t know of this service and some thief does and the thief decides to register somebody else’s blog? then what will happen if the rightful owner gets to know of this service and wants to copyright her/his blog, but finds out that some thief has already done that???????
they ought to ask for a log-in info of the blog or the api key or something when blogs matter. but i have no idea what to do about images! of course, if you are a serious photographer, then you have large originals, that might prove to be a handy i-got-proof thing!
i’m not sure i quite agree with some points. for example, that no-need-to-put-a-copyright-notice point. think about creative commons – is it not possible to copyright your content but enforce different conditions? if you don’t put such notices, the reader doesn’t know if your stuff can be shared or not and if it can be shared, then under which conditions.
so that automatic US copyright thingie may not be enough if you believe in explaining your stand regarding the copyright of your material.
what i feel uncomfortable about myfreecopyright is this: a unique digital fingerprint is generated for each webpage. so the real owner doesn’t get to register it again, if it is already registered by someone. maybe they have a way to transfer the information and the email to the rightful owner, once ownership is proven? maybe they have this info in FAQ. i’m afraid i haven’t read about these issues as yet.
So basiclly , the copyright can be a pain or what ? u two are so making me dizzie lol
I think the copyright is more as protection , cose even with a copyright and the size of the World (networld) out there , it’sn’t like u can just make a quick search and look if anybody stole your stuff .
So it’s more like copyright , if the Thing on your Blog is yours or are borrowed . And if you want to share , let it know…just like if it’s forbidden…big chance that poepleswont steal..they will steal it anyway even if u say no .
Add to that the more copyrighted stuff are born , the more steal stuff plugins are born also…
copyright can be quite a hot topic, i’m afraid.
for example, what if someone makes money out of my content? now that can be a real problem for bloggers who get money out of blogging.
as for general viewers who just wanna have the stuff in their hard disk, there’s basically no harm in it!
you are right, there are too many options for thieves out there. we bloggers can only prepare ourselves the best way we can. but please understand this, it is possible to sue for copyright infringement IF the thief is caught. so it’s always advisable to state the copyright policy loud and clear!
Thanks NG! A lot of readers don’t know about copyright law, and the buttons I’ve seen are mostly something like “Do not copy” or “Please do not copy”. This system seems to carry a little more weight, and with the ability to register posts as they are created there is less dispute about dates and ownership.
I understand timethief’s concerns, though. Since our posts are datestamped it should help resolve these things too.
You are providing a great service here.
thanks muse!
i’m glad to help!
thanks for the compliment! {blushing}
I have had a few posts stolen and my whole blog scraped. It was a lot of work to get google to pull its adsense ads from the blog of one thief, and as for another, well: I just gave up because it was too much work.
Thanks for this tip and I’ll see if it works for me too.
hello ian,
i believe it’s your first time here?
a very warm welcome and thanks for thanking!
so, you live in hamburg? i almost went there for a visit, but didn’t make it in the end! oh well, maybe some day!
sigh, how i hate sploggers!
Say,
I write my blog from Germany, in a blog site blah-blah.com, owned by an Indian company, hosted in Norway.
How can I protect my stuffs from others? I mean the copyright infringement.
Thanks for the nice post.
hello radagast,
you can try http://www.creativecommons.org to license and protect your stuff in web. also check out http://www.copyscape.com. hope this helps!
Hi Sanjida, your blog popped up in my comment box today because of your nice response to radagast. It was nice to “see you” there! I hope you are painting and photographing up a storm! I’m looking forward to seeing the results. Perhaps you could post once a MONTH, or something? I’m just saying… Miss you. Cheers.
hello muse,
i might not be posting too much in this blog. even if i post here, i am gonna do just fave youtube videos. nothing too stressful – ha ha ha!
thanks for dropping by. i miss you all. i am busy with theater activities as well. i wish i had more than 24 hours each day!
Do you have to put the badge up first to get this to work? Been trying for ages now, and though I’ve contacted them many times I get no reply.
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