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Copyrighting your blog

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Stitchthis · 22/07/2012 07:53

I've recently discovered a newish blog with the same name as mine. Does anyone know the legalities around protecting your name? Thanks

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Tee2072 · 22/07/2012 08:07

Do you have a copyright notice on your blog?

I don't think you can copyright the name, but I really don't know. I do know books can have the same name, a Google search shows that, so I assume there are no laws about blog names.

What's the name? ::nosy::

Stitchthis · 22/07/2012 16:56

Stitch this - the martingale blog

Its a craft publishing house. Nice blog actuallyGrin

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Tee2072 · 22/07/2012 17:03

Well, considering there are newspapers and magazines with the same/similar names, I would imagine you can't copyright names.

It's a nice blog! Grin

MmeLindor · 23/07/2012 11:14

You can copyright a company name, and the logo but I don't know if it would be worth it for a blog unless you were making a lot of money from blogging .

Bex66 · 23/07/2012 19:01

Copywriting a name is more difficult for reasons stated above, but copywriting the "content" - you should do this as a matter of course to protect it against phishing (think that's what its called) - stick a copyright symbol plus 2012 at the bottom of the blog to reinforce your copyright.

Stitchthis · 29/07/2012 18:37

Thanks guys. Copyright the content I will.

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