Copyright protections for adsense publishers

[ownerrim]

For those in the U.S. who carry adsense and create unique content for their sites, submitting to the u.s. copyright office may not be a bad idea (particularly since content theft seems to be increasing at a near viral rate).

Here's the url that applies specifically to "online works": [copyright.gov...]

Has anyone here ever done this? If you did, did you simply burn your site to a cd, pop it in an envelope, and mail it off?

[RonPK]

ownerrim, what do you think the first two ww's in www stand for ;)

Anyway, people with hostile intentions will easily find a way around IP blocking. Either they spoof their IP, or they'll use an anonymous proxy. So you may find yourself blocking only legit visitors.

[ownerrim]

ww...

Wild West?

"So you may find yourself blocking only legit visitors."

From russia, india, china, etc, etc, etc, it's really doubtful.

[hyperkik]

and let me tell you from personal experience----no attorney will work for you unless he can get paid.

Well, duh. But (a) you still need a defendant who can be found and who is collectable in order to even collect statutory damages and attorney fees, and (b) if your content has value, protecting it has value.

106A(a) is a VERY limited exception to the general rule that a valid copyright registration must be in effect prior to commencing an action for infringement. It will not be applicable in 99.99% of cases related to website copyrights.

Um... says you? But how credible are you, given your prior misstatement of plain statutory language? Is that a law degree on your wall? Oops - no, it's a law degree on my wall. Go figure.

[ownerrim]

"Oops - no, it's a law degree on my wall"

Hope you're not in the same office as the 100 dollar traffic attorney down the street from me, or the "I never contest with the industrial commission" workman's comp guy two floors above me.

[submitx]

no, it's a law degree on my wall. Go figure.

LOL. Alright smart guy, you just tell me what the court does with your complaint for copyright infringement of a website after you file it without attaching proof of the registered copyright.

Answer - Case dismissed, without prejudice.

Don't be so quick to assume what is hanging on my wall :).

[incrediBILL]

I just spoke to a tech at Westhost: He said they have no way, and know of no way, other than to individually block each ip or ip range, and manually enter them one at a time. Which sucks.

What they're actually telling you I'll translate to English:

"Boy, go away, your bothering me, it sounds like too much work and I don't get paid enough to deal with this"

There are other approaches to take, if you're still using Apache 1.3 you can install mod_throttle and stop people from taking more than 1 page per second, doesn't stop them but sure slows them down a bunch and keeps them from overloading your site. If you're site is dynamic you can track the number of pages downloaded and after 100 or so just print "Cannot comply with request." which is what Teleport Pro users (and some other offline browsers get) that don't know to mimic a browser get from my site all the time.