job78989 wrote:I agree with Schiehallion
All of my "stuff" on this site has no copyright and may be freely used by anyone.
I recognise the point dex makes, but still feel that particularly historical data should be free to use for educational purposes and research. So long as it is not used for profit.
John
If you create a piece of work, be it a photograph, a song a poem or whatever you automatically own the copyright (unless the work is created as part of your normal paid employment, in which case the copyright belongs to your employer), there is no requrement to register it anywhere.
What you then do with your rights to each piece of work you create is up to you, you can assign all of your rights to another individual or organisation, you can make it freely available with no restrictions, you could guard all of your rights jealously or you colud make it available for others to use but limit what they can use the work for.