Obtaining Copyrights

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Originally Posted by robot180

As I understand, in order to have your website legally copyrighted, you have to send in copies of all of your source code and copies of every page. Does anyone know of anything else that you have to do? Also, is there an exact format for the copyright?
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If anyone knows some information about copyrights, please let me know. Thanks.

Send in copies ... to whom? In the US, if you made the work after 1977 (I think that's the magic number), the work is automatically copyrighted by you, -- just put the message on it. To make it "more official," read easier to uphold in court, you can register the copyright ... but that is probably unnecessary for you. And there are about a million formats for copyright! -- you can say something as simple as, "Copyright by me, 2004", to providing a link to the GFDL and using that license, or the Creative Commons, etc. (open content licenses both). For specifics and references to the law, if you prefer, you should search google for the US Copyright Act (make sure you get the latest revision), or some such sort.