09-12-2011, 11:07 PM
Just about everything that you write that's original (comes from you) is copyrighted the moment that it's written.
You could include a copyright notice at the bottom of each post on your blog to point that out.
Registration gives you certain rights such as the right to sue and to receive statutory damages.
http://www.directlegal.com/cg_benefits_registration.htm
But you don't have to register your work until you feel the need to sue someone for infringement.
If you do register your work, you have to pay a fee for each registration and provide 2 "best copies" of your work. When newspapers do that, they typically register an entire month's newspapers at once as a "collective work" and provide copies on microfilm or in specially bound volumes. It's a big PITA and it's expensive and only the big guys bother.
Read the FAQ for more info:
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/
You could include a copyright notice at the bottom of each post on your blog to point that out.
Registration gives you certain rights such as the right to sue and to receive statutory damages.
http://www.directlegal.com/cg_benefits_registration.htm
But you don't have to register your work until you feel the need to sue someone for infringement.
If you do register your work, you have to pay a fee for each registration and provide 2 "best copies" of your work. When newspapers do that, they typically register an entire month's newspapers at once as a "collective work" and provide copies on microfilm or in specially bound volumes. It's a big PITA and it's expensive and only the big guys bother.
Read the FAQ for more info:
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/