Proving you created your posts

  • Let’s say you write really good articles. As we all know anything you post on internet can get copied. After a while it is even possible that your article or parts of it (even in sligjtly modified form) will exist in many places without the later copiers knowing where it all originated.

    What if someone registers that as their own copyright and come after you ? How do you prove you created that post first ? Is emailing to yourself on the day you created it a good method? I know it is called poor man’s copyright and not substitute for real registration but we are not talking about going after someone here. We are only talking about creating a proof that you made that post first IF someone later comes after you with your content ( i know this is a very unlikely situation but you never know)…

    I know registering your work with copyright office saves the headache but it is not very practical or cheap if you make many posts.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I’m not a lawyer, so don’t take this as legal advice, but you could save your posts to the Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org after publication.

    You and the offender can change time stamps on your own sites, but neither of you can change the Internet Archive’s time stamps.

    It’s also a good practice in general for preserving your work.

    Thread Starter ketanco

    (@ketanco)

    How do you save your post there? I followed the link you sent and when i scroll down i see a save page button. So i enter my posts link and hit save page button and that’s it ?

    is there a fee or subscription or anything else i might want to know about it ?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    It’s a free service. Go back to that page and look for the “Save Page Now” field, and just put the URL of your newly published post into that.

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