How do you copyright your hub?

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   Michele Travisposted 12 years ago

   How do you copyright your hub?
   
   Some hubs have the copyright symbol on them.  How do you go about getting your hub a copyright in order to keep it from being stolen?
   
   

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   JThomp42posted 12 years ago

   Under the law, copyright is granted automatically to the author upon the event of recording a creative work of expression in a tangible form, be it paint on canvas, pixels in a digital camera, or pencil on paper.
   Since 1989 there have been no "formalities" required to obtain copyright -- prior to that the publication may have been required to be registered or marked with a copyright notice (Copyright, date, name of author). Copyright notice is optional today, but may be useful as evidence that an infringement was "willful", which is an element of a criminal copyright indictment.
   © 2012

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      Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      This is a wonderful answer.  Thank you very much.

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      JThomp42posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You are very welcome Michele.

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   safiq ali patelposted 12 years ago

   As far as I understand if you publish a hub here on Hub Pages and your have written and created your hub then the copyright is granted by hub pages as yours and no one other than you owns the copyright to your work.
   To be just a little assertive of your copyright over a your work you can mark the hub with "written by" and then your name. You can also use the international copyright symbol.
   But, overall for the hub pages at least, if you have created the hub, the forum or the question or answers then the copyright of that work remains yours and non-one else. That's the rule here on Hub Pages.

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      Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you,  I appreciate you answer.  It is helping me a lot!

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   Deborah Brooksposted 12 years ago

   Michele.. I was clueless too.. but my editor got my copy write and its what I put at the end of all my hubs.. and I was told the Hub is supposed to copy write it for you.  but if you remember about 8- 9 months ago .. there was so many hubs being stolen.. but a few resourceful hubbers tracked down the person that was stealing our hubs and put them put of business. Great question  MIchele

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      Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks Debbie,  I have seen your hubs all have copyrights.  That is one of the reasons I asked this question:)

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   rfmoranposted 12 years ago

   When you publish something you do own the copyright to it but it's best to put the world on notice by saying: Copyright © 2012 by YOU. The copyright symbol is in MS word - Click insert on top bar then go over to right to symbols. You can file it with the copyright office in DC but it's hardly worth the cost.

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      geetbhimposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      thanks for the information.

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   mizjoposted 12 years ago

   No, i have no idea.  I noticed rfmoran's answer, that the symbol is in MS Word.  I wonder if there's an easy html way to do it on a Mac?

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      Anti-Valentineposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Some word processors allow you to type (C) and it automatically converts to a copyright symbol. Otherwise just copy the copyright symbol and paste it. Or is that copyright infringement?

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   aebruckposted 12 years ago

   I work in the copyright department of a big publishing company so this question is right up my alley!    As soon as your thoughts/words/art is written down in a tangible form (even on a napkin!), they/it is protected by the US copyright law.  Some still choose to include ©2012 (by the way, if you're using a PC the copyright symbol is ALT + 0169) to formally make it known.

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      Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you so much. That is a wonderful answer!

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