Originally Posted by tooMuchFabric
Originally Posted by amandasgramma
She said "I know, but the person reading this may not know it's a worthless statement".......
A person's work is their own by assumption. They do not even have to make the statement.
On the other hand, PROVING it in a court would mean having the legal registration paperwork to back up the claim.
So Yes it's true the website's contents are copyrighted, but in a contest over it, proof might be costly and hard to do.
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There is one way that yes you can proove it by going to a notery and have your documents stamped before you put the pattern out. It dates it and it is the proof of ownership that it is your design and it becomes a matter of law. Once stamped it can't be changed for any reason.