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On 2022-07-26 14:48, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 07:06 -0700, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>> 
>> What is a registered copyright.  He has a copyright statement on the
>> site.
> 
> 
> I'm not a lawyer, just a guy with about 9 registered copyrights and
> hundreds of web
> pages, so what I give you is just opinion. A little web research will
> give you your
> own opinion.
> 
> A copyright statement is not registration.
> 
> To register his copyright, he would have had to one way or another put
> the entirety
> of his website on an optical drive or a thumb drive, fill out a
> registration form,
> pay about $63.00, and send it to the Library of Congress.
> 

He did not do so.


> One of the benefits of registering your copyright, if I remember
> correctly, is that
> when some fool copies your stuff you can get an immediate monetary
> judgement from
> them.
> 
> Don't get me wrong: The fact that your friend wrote this stuff means 
> he's the
> copyright owner. It's legally his. Without your friend's express
> written permission,
> the copycat has no legal standing to copy your friend's work. It's
> just that without
> a registration, you have to spend a lot of money in court.
> 
> What were the damages to your friend for the copy? I don't mean the
> damages for the
> loss of his website, I mean the damages for the copying alone. How 
> could such
> damages be proven? Has the copier used your friend's work to make a
> lot of money?

Interestingly the other person has done nothing with the website.


> If
> not, and if it isn't registered, I'd advise your friend to screen
> scrape every page
> of the copy so your friend himself can rebuild his site. Perhaps the
> copier really
> did your friend a service by copying.

I wonder about the duplicate content issue.

> 
> One other thing: There's a reason Troubleshooters.Com isn't a Drupal 
> site or a
> Wordpress site or a Rails site or a Zope site. The minute a database 
> becomes
> involved, both deployment and backup become much, much more difficult.

How do you create content and how do you maintain it ie, modify your 
content?

I think every website I've created has been data driven even my first 
from 2000.

I use WordPress exclusively now.  Much easy than the alternative.

A long while ago I wrote a script to backup to Amazon S3. I added it to 
a Cron and it does a backup everyday and saves these backups for 6 
months.  It is a two step process 1) tar and compress all the web 
content to include WordPress, and 2) tar and compress the data dump.  
Creates 2 files and it is hands free.

I recently pulled down a backup and setup a server to test it and it 
worked.

These S3 backups have saved my bacon a few times. On a site I maintained 
a fellow consultant did something that deleted the entire website.  So I 
downloaded the S3 backups did a reinstall and we were back on line.

I backup 3 or 4 websites daily and keep their backups for 6 months and 
it only cost me about $1.05 a month.  If I clean it up a bit it will go 
below a dollar a month.

> It would also
> be incredibly difficult to put a database based site on an optical disk 
> or thumb
> drive to send to the Library of Congress. With Troubleshooters.Com, I 
> could just
> rsync my local copy to a thumb drive or optical disc and bang, I'm 
> done.
> 
> SteveT