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The third means of protecting content is copyright. Copyright protects everything that
goes into a website??”text, graphics, diagrams, scripts, and so on. Copyright infringement is
all too common, often resulting in lawsuits in which companies and individuals receive
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handsome compensation for having their work ripped off. Several of these lawsuits include
high-profile companies.
Copyright
Almost all web designers have seen painfully evident copyright infringement in their
tenure. Sometimes it??™s just an original logo being copped with a color change, other times
it??™s the actual graphical layout of the page, other times it??™s entire passages of text.
Unfortunately, the near-bottomless Web provides ample temptation for unscrupulous
characters to rip off others??™ hard work with a slim chance of ever being caught.
Protecting a website from such transgressions is not difficult. Once a website is registered
with the US Copyright Office,1 it is officially protected, and the owning company can file
lawsuits at their own discretion. Unfortunately, simply adding a copyright notice to the
bottom of a page does not grant the same power.
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