Webmasters should be aware of the copyright laws before including any unauthorized content on their weblogs and websites.

Proper differentiation between copyrights and other intellectual property like trademark and patents should be maintained. We can find numerous websites which help you in copyright registration. The main purpose of these websites is to provide evidence in case of a lawsuit. Fore more info… [Copyright]

We have listed some of the websites which help the user to know more about plagiarism and find tools to authenticate work.

These are some of the tools to detect and report plagiarism.

Watermark.ws: This is one of the best free services available on web to protect your photographs and images. It has 3 simple steps to add the watermark in the form of text or an image. You can align the text in various angles and adjust the copyright text as per your need. Once you have processed the image, you can directly download the file in zip format.

WordPress plugin: This plugin helps all the blog owners who are using wordpress as their blog engine. This powerful and intuitive plugin was developed by Maxpower.ca. Its main function is to append unique phrase or keyword at the end of every post in the RSS feeds.

Domain tools: Domain tools cater various services to find and report a host with numerous domain extensions. It provides the services like domain monitor, typo generator, Whois applications and many others to easily locate and find information about various hosting servers.

Archive.org This is an amazing website which takes you back in time to find the indexed pages in an archive. You can track back the data published on your website even if you have lost it due to various reasons. It retains the posts along with the date when it was posted. http://www.archive.org/

Registered Commons: It’s another product launched by the team of creative commons. It provides secure registration of authorship of creative workings, no matter if its photography, poetry, a series of mp3 files or an open source software project. If somebody infringes the license associated to your work, your registration helps to prove your authorship.

Conclusion: Here there is a thin line between content theft and content syndication. If a visitor echoes content on his website as a means of giving credits to the original owner, then it may not be called as plagiarism. In fact, the concept of RSS was born to support this feature. But, if the same visitor intentionally uses the content to monetize his website, then this could be an infringement of copyrights. It is always a good practise to be creative, get inspiration from good works and know the extent of the copyright laws before it leads to copyright violations.

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