How many times in practice have you found yourself in a situation where you created a website, but you weren’t sure what to write in the “footer” website to be copyright-legally protected? You called a colleague and asked if only the “” sign and © the inscription “” and the inscription all rights reserved or for thorough protection are required “© year of first issue, copyright holder and record “All rights reserved.””
However, in order to help us answer the question, we must first clarify how copyright is obtained in the first way.
How do we obtain copyright?
The answer may surprise you a little. Under the legislation currently in force, no formal record, registration process, filling in forms, etc. are required for thorough protection. Why? Article 14 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act (ZASP) states that copyright belongs to the author on the basis of the creation of the work itself, which means that the author belongs automatically, whether or not he detains himself. The same is true in most countries of the world (including the US).
So why do we find similar records on the websites of the faculty of law?
Why do we see such inscriptions on the websites of law faculty or perhaps even law firms? They, however, should know the law.
The answer is simple – purely for the sake of prevention. In general, there is enormous confusion over what to write in the “footer” website to make it copyright-protected. There are many who think that if a website does not have a Copyright notice record, it is free to copy. You probably don’t want people to think that’s the case, do you? It is for this very reason that it is advisable that your website should only contain some formal record.
Appropriate record
And what would be a proper record to deter offenders? In practice, the following record is most often made up of four elements:
- character © ;
- the year of the first issue of the work;
- the name of the author;
- such as “All rights reserved”.
Example: © 2015, Janez Novak, All rights reserved.
Finally,
Most countries of the world do not require any copyright registration or formal record. However, the aforementioned “Copyright notice” is highly recommended as they are proven to deter potential offenders. Let me finish this. There is no rule in the world that “Copyright notice” should be boring. So to conclude, a little for a joke, a little bit really, I’m passing on one of the more interesting records I’ve seen online recently:
“It’s mine,” I tell you, mine! All mines! You can’t have it because it’s mine! You can read it (please); you can quote it (thanks); but I still own it because it’s mine! I own it and you don’t. Nya-nya-nya. They’re there. COPYRIGHT 2001… by Jeff Jarvis.”
In the Law Firm Križanec, we have also been working on intellectual property law a lot lately. In case you have any further questions, you can always call or contact us via email.