How can I copyright my website/posts?
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I would like to copyright the stories I post on my blog, but I’m not sure if there’s an option for that on WordPress. I’d greatly appreciate any advice or help given!
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simply: you can not! Everything you put on the internet, can and will be copied one way or another.
Some tips to protect your content can be found at https://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/ -
Hi there, your published content is under your copyright (all rights reserved) *from the time you publish it* unless you relinquish some rights, release it to the public domain or release it under the terms of a Creative Commons license. Even when something is under full copyright, there is also “Fair Use” of that material for certain purposes (satire, critique, and education for example).
All the advice in the guide that @staartmees pointed you to helps you to let people know that your content is under copyright as well as what to do if you find your content scraped and uploaded somewhere else on the web.
Let us know if you have any other question after giving those a read.
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Just adding here that if you read the WordPressdotcom Terms of Service that you agreed to when you signed up for a site, you’ll notice a mention of Reblogs. https://en.support.wordpress.com/reblogs/
When another WordPressdotcom user reblogs a portion of your post on their site using the Reblog button, attribution is given to you and a link is provided back to your original post. This is not considered by WordPressdotcom to be a copyright infringement as they are using your content to promote your site, as mentioned in the ToS.
You can also choose to not display the Reblog button on your site under Settings>Sharing>Sharing buttons. https://wordpress.com/sharing/buttons/
Hope that also helps.
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