What is Copyright really?

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I use the MIT license and it has this format as an example in https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT:

The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is ...

I also see many sites adding the text "Copyright" in the footer, however I have heard that in fact these sites do not have the "copyright", people put it in the footer by simply putting.

So what I’d like to understand is that let’s say that the data on the site does not have a "defined license", the copyright in the footer is almost an error?

Or copyright is a term I can "tell" which copy rights on the content or code?

What this term really means?

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  • "Copy Right" or "Copy Right", rsrsrs. Joke

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Legally you have all the rights to anything you create. So if you create a software (or a book, or a screen, or whatever) it is automatically protected by law and no one can afford that software for anything but yourself.

However, some people not knowing this, think they can take any code (image, book, etc) on the internet and leave using, so some authors find it good to put the copyright symbol associated with the work, remembering that it has owner.

Others however do not question their rights, so they put licenses (free or not) as Creative-Commons giving up some of their rights automatically.

Remembering that regardless of whether you put a copyright symbol, if someone infringes these rights, you will have to prove that the other infringed ("the accuser bears the burden of proof"). So some authors when they release a work publish on some major portal or in some other way to have a proof that it was created by them first.

There is also the possibility of registration of work that confers an extra formality to the act.

Some useful links:

Copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

Furlough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License

Copyleft: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

Creative Commons: https://br.creativecommons.org/

GNU licenses: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.pt-br.html

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A website, as well as a book, a logo or a magazine, is easily copied, being fundamental the record so that its authorship and property is respected.

The code of the website may be contractually protected, according to Dr. Wilson Canesin, a lawyer, one of the directors of Jonel Accounting, "The escrow agreement guarantees that companies that have acquired the license to use a software can access its source code, without breaking the copyright". The content can be protected, ideas and thoughts have no copyright right, but creations applied in tangible media yes, such as, photographs, texts, graphic design of the site, for this must make the registration of property.

Therefore, generally, in blogs, the copyright can be directly from the provider as for example the "Blogger", they have rights on the content expressed on the site. However, if you have no registration and still place Copyright, it will be worth almost nothing unless you can prove that you are the author of these publications.

Source: http://www.significados.com.br/copyright/

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