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Is this (Copyright© 2009 Karen L. Monsour, All Rights Reserved.) necessary at the end of my AR blog?

One would think so, however...

I just spent the last 3 hours reading some of the big AR Dogs blogs and several other of the points leaders blogs here on AR.

I found that the AR "gods"/employees/owners/etc. do not end their posts with a copyright signature.

However, I did find that many of those great contributors on AR do end their posts (I do as well) with something similar to mine:

With the never ending blogs and articles written by contributors here, very few people use this type of closing to their original articles.

Is it important to qualify your original writings by using this tool?

Why do you feel it is important to use it?

Why do you feel it is not necessary to do so?

Do you want your own information to remain your own? I would hope so.

AR has become a great advocate of not allowing others to copy and paste other's who write their original blogs to their own blogs...that's fantastic...thank you Harlan, however, it still happens on occasion.

Should one use this signature to protect their own original content?

Why or why not? Please do tell.

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Posted by Karen Monsour,REALTOR® Broward,Palm Beach,Miami/Dade! 954-464-4194 anytime! on 02/07/2009 11:55 PM

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Karen- Of course the owners and employees of AR don't put the copyright at the end of their blogs. They are not using this platform to become writers nor to protect their writing.

That is mixing apples to oranges.

In order to notify others that you do not want your work copied you need to have that on your posts.But in order for your work to be copyrighted you don't have to have the words on each post. As soon as you write something and publish it to the web, it is auto copyrighted, same with photos and video.

But that is not why you should do it even. There is a more important reason:

I always add my title to my post within the copyright notice statement for anchor text for the search engines. I learned this from a very respected SEO guru.

Of course, I now have lots of articles I want to go viral so I use creative commons licenses for that. Katerina

Katerina,

Some of their posts are very informative and are originals, why wouldn't they want that information protected. How is it protected just because they are AR employees?

So, for my question, It is wise to add that?

You have protection on everything you ever wrote just as everyone else does. You cant just copy someone. You dont have to do anything for this its just your right.

Karen: I personally do not see what sense it makes... unless there is something in your post that took an awful lot of work... like some of Lenn Harley's maps are works of art. Then I would put that in there... but for other times... I would think not.

Shane,

I understand and have no desire to copy anyone else.

My question is, is it necessary to put the copyright at the end of my post?

My question is, is it necessary? After all, AR allows re-blogging. If you don't put that at the end of your blog, do you have rights if your post is altered? or taken out of context? or edited?

Karen Anne,

Have you seen some of the plagerism out there? My problem is the re-blogging and some of the issues that has caused when information has been edited.

Karen - Thanks for the post. I never really thought about this before. I'll have to check into this for myself and come back here to see what other have said.

Karen, as Katerina stated having the copyright notice with a link (words) about the article written is good for SEO but not needed to protect your authorship of the work.

The minute you hit 'publish' it is yours.

Karen, I don't know about that. I guess I didn't think about it either. I guess I feel like it would be like me having to copyright my conversation everytime I talked shop with another realtor. Thanks again. kevincavanaughonline.com

So it is good for SEO but not necessary is what I am getting from the comments...

Great post and subject.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooh....that's a tough one. I hate when people skyme my info. Just re-blog it. Copyrighting info seems too laborsome.

Great Post

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Karen: I guess because I live in my little cave, or corner of the world, I am not aware of the degree of plagiarism. So... if it is that rampant, that's horrible, and it's got to stop.

Kris,

Thanks for the info. I just know that in the past before I decided not to re-blog anymore I was misquoted.

George,

You are welcome.

Kevin,

This is not about conversations, it's about original written work. It's about blogging, re-blogging and whether you are protected or not. I read a blog last night where someone was asking if they could copy and past blogs and then edit them...I think not...what do you think?

Larry,

I don't allow re-blogging, it has come back to bite me.

Charles,

That's what I'm getting as well, however, if Lenn Harley put's it at the end of her posts...I'm going to do it as well.

MBC,

Thank you,

Karen Anne,

AR is not going to allow plaigerism and several people have been removed from here due to that.

I'm just trying to see if it is necessary and the relevance of it. If Katerina said it will help with the SEO, I'll keep doing it. If Lenn Harley does it, I'll keep doing it.

I just want to understand the why's, how's, and importance of doing so. I like to hear all of these opinions.

Karen,

I am not sure if you should. I do because somewhere on AR I read it was a good idea.

My two cents from Wildwood, Missouri,

Ann Hayden

FEB

I'm not sure I understand. The re-blog feature here on AR uses a persons post in it's entirety. How could one be misquoted?

(Unless someone is editing it after the fact! I haven't seen that before...that could be a cause of concern though)

When you stop to think about it, mere blogging here on ActiveRain provides proof of date and time of the posting of your content. Let someone else try to prove they preceded your work with their own date and time.

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