How can you protect your work through copyright if it is an automatic right?
The easiest form of copyrighting your work is adding the © symbol, your name (if you are the owner, if you are not, add the owners name) and the year the piece of work was created. These three steps will cover you if anyone should question where the work came from and who the owner is.
How does copyright effect you?The easiest form of copyrighting your work is adding the © symbol, your name (if you are the owner, if you are not, add the owners name) and the year the piece of work was created. These three steps will cover you if anyone should question where the work came from and who the owner is.
When you copyright your work it means that your work is protected from being used without your permission. Simply adding a © symbol will ensure that your work is protected from others.
How to ensure that you don't infringe:
There are a few different ways of ensuring that you do not accidentally infringe. Copyright protects the physical work itself not the idea so if you have an amazing idea and find out that someone else has also had that idea then document all research and reference and it will cover your tracks. If the thought crosses your mind that you might have accidentally infringed then you need to ask yourself if you have copied their work or not.
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