how do you make your html page copywrighted so no one can copy the text on the site?

Question

as i have been too sites and it prevents you from copying the text so how do you go about doing this to your own html pages?

Answer 1

It has nothing to do with copyright - it is called copy protection. You do this by installing a script that disables right-clicking on your page. This does not, however, prevent people from highlighting text, then selecting Edit - Copy. It is generally agreed upon in web design that using scripts to disable right-clicking frustrates and alienates visitors who use the right click on their mouse button for other functions such as Add to Favorites, Print, and Open in New Window (for links).

The best way to protect your content is to register your site with an anti-plagiarism site such as copyscape, which searches for copies of your page on the web.

http://www.copyscape.com/

At the bottom of your web pages, you should put a statement such as this:

Contents, including images, property of [name of site]. Unauthorized dupication prohibited.

Answer 2

First you have to state the Web-Page is Copyrighted. Do this by placing the C with a Circle around it and possibly a statement like; "This Web-Site is Protected under copyright laws both national and international". May even add "I will have Bush kick your Butt", well maybe not. Above people have given you some good resources. The HTML Editor I use has a built it protection I can or can not use, my option and it helps protect someone from copying my source code and possibly some text. Remember to copy text, we see this on here a lot without the reference (Plagiarism). All a per need do is highlight your text and copy and paste in most cases. Some of the HTML Editors and maybe those mentioned above will actually stop the Copy & Paste also. Just read for this when you look at these different resources.

Answer 3

Not sure but I know if you where to write a poem and send it to yourself in the mail and keep it in a sealed envelope that would stand up as evedince in a federal copyright court. So how could it be different with such a creation as a web page. You might want to save it to MS word or something. Then add quotes and references to any bits of code you borrowed from somewhere else then at the end of the thing site those references in a list and put numbers next to each reference then match the numbers to the quoted portions of the code.

Answer 4

Under US law, your material is automatically copyrighted. If you'd like to make that copyright easier to enforce in the event it came up in a lawsuit, you can:

1. Print a copy of the text and mail it to yourself in a sealed, self-addressed envelope. This allows you to establish the date of your material's creation (so that you might prove it predated a later, stolen & identical work by someone else),
and/or
2. Formally register the copyright. Considering the expense and paperwork for this, it doesn't sound like it would make much sense for what you're describing. Again, your work is already automatically copyrighted -- this is just a matter of making that copyright easier to prove in the event that it's contested.

Finally, don't confuse copyright with how easy or hard it is for someone to copy text (that's a technical, not legal, question... and the answer there is that it's extraordinarily difficult to do and probably not worth fretting much over).

Instead of preventing your work from being stolen, you'll be better off just doing enforcement. Simply do a search every so often to make sure it didn't get used. If it is, email the individual or group, let them know that they do not have your permission to use your text. If they don't comply by removing the stolen prose, then you can seek consider a lawsuit to bring injunctive relief (a court requiring them to remove the text) and possibly economic damages (if their use of the text robbed you of an opportunity to make money with the prose).

Answer 5

Copyright protect the mode of expression of an idea and not the idea itself. (the latter is protected by patent).
In other words, the exact wording is what is protected.
Copyright protection is utomatic for all works originating in countries that have signed the Berne convention. Most civilised countries are members.
There is a more formal way to claim copyright. That way consists of writing the following at the left side bottom of the front page your name followed by c in a circle superscript and then the year you conceived it.
For example, "G. Smith ©, 2006"
The c in circle can be generated by pressing the alt button and holding it down and typing 0169.In most countries the duration of copyright is author's life plus 75 years. (it used to be 50 years).
Dan.

Answer 6

Turn your pages into JPEG files. Capture your page of text into Photoshop or some other program and then break it up into smaller squares. When someone goes to your site, it might take a second or two longer to display the page but you will not be able to copy any text from it electronically.

Answer 7

No, because plagerism is when you copy something and use it as you made it up. If you give the source, than its not plagerism Glad If I Helped =D

Answer 8

There are java scripts you can find (www.dynamicdrive.com) has some these prevent right clicking (lots of artists websites use these)
as far as copywrite put a copywrite notice at the bottom of your site. As far as the "mail it to yourself" that doesn't really work.

Answer 9

Your page is already copywrighted. According to US law noone can take anything off your page without your permission and reference the information back to your webpage.

Copywriting does not prevent people from taking things off your page. You still have to go through legal actions to claim someone took stuff off your page without your permission.

All webpages are copywrited by US law, you just have to be able to prove that the stuff taken actually belongs to you.

Answer 10

You can make it more difficult, by adding scripts to your page to prevent certain actions (right-clicking, view source etc). A good place to find some of these scripts is listed below.

But as Rawlyn says, there is always a way to get around it.

Answer 11

A good way to protect is to use flash or pdf, but people will always find a way to take content.