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Bloggers can protect their work by registering for a copyright with the USCO or obtaining a distribution license. Copyright guidelines are available from the USCO, and bloggers should display the copyright symbol and owner information on their pages. It’s also important to note copyright information if blog content is used elsewhere. Obtaining a distribution license may not require a copyright.
You can protect a blog by working with a government copyright office or by obtaining a distribution license from a company or organization that extends such licenses to bloggers. In the United States, you can copyright a blog by registering the blog with the United States Copyright Office (USCO). Registering for a copyright gives bloggers a public record of their intellectual property claims. This makes it easier for bloggers to protect themselves and represent their claims in cases where their work has been stolen or plagiarized. In such cases, it is not always necessary for a blogger to have established a copyright to be able to send cease and desist letters.
Copyright guidelines for a blog in the United States are set out in relatively clear terms by circulars distributed by the United States Copyright Office. These circulars can be requested by mail or downloaded from the USCO website. In most cases, bloggers are required to submit their blog content on a disk along with other application materials. There may be a fee associated with submitting this application.
For those who choose to protect the material they post on their blogs, it is important to let readers and site visitors know that the work is copyrighted. Every blog page should have the copyright symbol, which is the letter “c” with a circle around it, posted somewhere on the page. It’s common for people to post this symbol at the bottom of every page. Along with this symbol, the name of the person or organization that owns the copyright should be published. Also, the copyright year(s) must be published.
To very securely protect a blog, a blogger should also note copyright information if blog content is used elsewhere. Some bloggers, for example, are careful about posting copyright information in RSS feeds that include content from their blogs. The same can be done if the blog content is disseminated in some other way, such as in the body of a web-based newsletter.
Those who choose to obtain a distribution license may not need to obtain a copyright as well. To copyright a blog means to prevent the use of any blog content in a way not expressly permitted by the copyright owner. Obtaining a distribution license means agreeing to a certain type of use of that content.
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