I hope you are aware that I did go look it up, and yes it is copyrighted but in the US unless you file and pay fees to your copyright, trade mark, patents you cannot sue in a court of law for monetary damages. Sorry to burst your bubble but that's just the way it goes down, I could sit here all day and post news articles off media sites for debates/discussions under the fair use law and as long as I am not altering that content, claiming it as mine or making a considerable amount of money to my benefit there's absolutely nothing anyone can do about it. I am sure Fox News doesn't care I made two cents posting some article. Actually on the other site I blog on I do that all night long, and to probably your horror so do hundreds of other people blogging on that site. Don't believe me go check it out, it's call Disqus.
RE: Let's talk about: Copyright
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Not true my friend. In the US you do not need to file anything to have ownership. If you create it then you own it and someone has to show they owned it before you did in order to dispute that claim.
If you file and get a document from the federal govt. like a i.e. a copyright showing that you had possession and ownership of the created piece of IP on that particular date when it was filed, it can certainly help in a court of law, but you can do that at the time you sue if you do not have it. So once you discover there is financial gain from your work being made by someone else, if you have not done so already, you simply register and then you are set.
How is everyone using everyone else's content right now? What you see going on right now online is content creators being in a transition phase. No one knows how to react because it has all come on so fast. But that will change. But understand that technically anytime someone publishes someone else's original work without permission, or a license it is illegal. Whether it is in a book or a magazine or a website. It is just that the laws never accounted for something like the Internet. What you will see over the next 5 to 7 years are new laws and no one will be able to to just post someone else's content without permission, or license without a legal repercussion. I actually hear that a company is working on a blockchain solution to prevent this from happening.
It is coming and this is why you see companies like Facebook now trying to get right with content creators. I have been involved in this issue and have been a publisher for 30 years. Thanks.
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Like I said you do own it, without being registered the most you can do is go to court for a cease and desist order. If you are filed you can sue for monetary damages. You can not sue for monetary damages that would have existed before you filed, like if someone was using your work and making money before you filed, you could only sue for damages that occurred after you filed. Plus there is still the fair use doctrine, which gives you a right to use another's work as long as you accredit them and there is no significant monetary return.
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