It can be very upsetting to have information "stolen" from your website or to have content copied and used by others who aren't willing to do their own legwork. There are laws to protect your hard work and there are ways to prevent it from being used by others in the first place.

We all know how much work it is to create content for your website. A copyright on your web site will provide protection from having your content plagiarized and placed on other sites, without your name acknowledged as the author. If genuine users have "borrowed" your content but have given you credit for the work then there is no copyright infringement. But discovering unauthorized versions of your works on other sites across the Web can be disheartening.

Creating a backup of your web content is imperative, as is inserting the copyright Meta tag on all of your web pages. If genuine users are aware that a copyright exists on certain material they would generally respect that law. However, most content thieves aren't put off by a copyright law at all. Once you have officially registered your site for copyright, you'll be able to seek damages from those who plagiarize your work, in addition to being compensated for legal costs.

Protect your website from hackers. Professional hackers are adept at overcoming most tricks of the trade that are used to protect content. However, inexperienced hackers may be discouraged from stealing your content if you have managed to change your website code. By making your HTML code compact without using unnecessary spaces, you will make it much more difficult for a hacker to find specific pieces of text that can be copied and used unlawfully. JavaScript can enable you to render the right-click function inoperative on your website, thus preventing readers from selecting any data and copying it for their own use.

You will never be able to foolproof your content but, taking a few preventative steps will certainly make a thief's job far more difficult and make him reluctant to attempt plagiarizing your work. Your efforts deserve to be protected from those who choose not to create their own, unique content.