Are website reviews copyright protected on websites?
823077
I believe that unless you can prove "copywrite" it is out there.............even if you can prove copywrite we're taking about the world wide web......there is no way you can monitor all the sites to see if it is being used.\n\nI have had someone use something I wrote posted on a site without my permission; so I wrote to them and asked them to take it down - and they did. If they didn't I guess I could sue but that would be silly.\n\nREMEMBER just about anything you do on the web can be read by anyone whether or not you want them to.  If you google the title of your review you may just see it.
36953
Yes, as long as you don't upload copyrighted material.
147143
Interesting question.\n\nFirst. If the music is copyrighted, and 99.9% of music is, you can't. I should say you shouldn't unless you want to be shut down.\n\nOther than that try Geocities.
202798
That would almost certainly fall within the fair use provisions of US copyright law. Generally speaking, when you are giving criticism of another work, you are allowed to excerpt it in part, so long as what you are doing is providing identification or supporting facts for your criticism.\n\nSince most people are going to recognize a movie by its cover art / promotional collateral, you're fine.\n\nhttp://www.copyright.gov
900487
If the website doesn't explicitly allow you to do so, that's stealing bandwidth and in many cases illegal (and in all cases, unethical).\n\nNot to mention copyright infringements..
878220
Giving credit is NOT sufficient!  You must have the explicit permission of the owner of the content BEFORE you can copy it to your site.
736559
Its answer is rather dificult. As long as i understand u are not talking about copyright problems but viruses. Illegal things normally include spywares, adwares or some sort of controllers (exe files). u come accross them when u download something from an "unsafe" site or when u browse a site with some popups asking u to either press the "ok" or "yes" button to jump in luky draw or win prize. they'll never ask for permission. its better to have some good antivirus software (Norton, McAfee etc), anti spywares (spyboot etc) or adwares (AdwareSE etc) installed on ur PC. they'll better look after them.
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I am afraid the other respondent (jtucker...) is completely wrong, apparently knowing just enough to be dangerous by offering incorrect advice on legal matters.\n\nCreative writing can be copyrighted.  Even slogans or other very short writings have been deemed unprotectible by copyright by the courts, because the degree of creativity in them is so small and the likelihood of true originality is minimal.  Your one-word wonder could technically be copyrighted, but you have about zero chance of enforcing the copyright.  You should save the $35 filing fee.\n\nTrademarks are only valid if used to designate the origin of a product or service that is currently available on the market.  A personality won't suffice.  Therefore, even if you were willing to spend the hundreds of dollars to register your trademark federally, you would probably find yourself unable to complete the process, because it requires you to identify the product or service you are describing with the mark.  It sounds like you've got very little here that would be really enforceably yours -- at least so far, since we should all hope good things for you.  Once you've started doing something more, then the way you identify yourself might begin to develop some value.\n\nCheck out some legal information websites like findlaw.com for questions like these.  It's shocking how wrong some of the answers you see on this site sometimes are.
1152105
Usually people won't be blocked if they don't respect to the website copyright.\n\nd10v01b
1002635
In most cases, it is not. But the exact consequences of doing so are a little fuzzy, and there are thousands of websites that continue to use copyrighted images without facing legal problems. If you think you are using those images in a fair manner, you might want to check out if the "fair use" thing applies to you. More info here: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
11345
In the United States (and the law is similar in most countries), it isn't copyright that you need to worry about. Single words and titles aren't copywrited.  However, the word "entmoot" from the Lord of the Rings is probably subject to trademark protections, even though it may not be registered as a trademark.  The law can be complicated, and many tests are applied, but the basic question asked in trademark is whether the mark (in this "entmoot") is associated with the previous user and could cause confusion in a customer when the customer sees it used by the new user. That is, would someone buying a product with "entmoot" in the title assume that the product is associated with Tolkien/ Lord of the Rings because of the word.  I think they probably would, myself.\n\nThe US Trademark Office and Copyright Office have some useful information online if you want to pursue the question.  http://www.uspto.gov/main/faq/index.html
151453
If you do not want someone to use something you write keep it private.  If they are using something you've written and not attributing it to you, this is a violation of your copyright and I imagine you could send a takedown notice.  I really don't think you want to do that, however, that is the mechanism that websites use to control the misuse of their intellectual property.
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Online security and copyright infringement
314756
You have to check that the site from where you have taken the news story or link gives you permission for that.Copyright issues may be there.But there are some news sites or sites which offer you to put their news headings or site links on your site for free.You may see a link saying like 'Put this on your website'.
703580
I doubt it. Wikipedia is GPL'ed meaning if it was sold, someone could "fork it" - that is copy the contents, and then offer it under the same terms currently available- meaning free.
362757
No. You are creating a backup copy in case the hard copy is damaged. *wink, wink* Seriously though, as long as you're not making it publicly available I don't think that would be considered copyright infringement.
103873
putting a copyright button on the website doesn't make it a legal copy right. Websites are not copyrighted like that. What is copyrighted is the information and the name. You can send in an application to your state attorney ofice to register your business name as your website name and you can send in an application for trademark for your website/business name, thatway no one else can use that name for their business.