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Originally Posted by NVash
The main problem I have is that Im afraid one will steal my story or something to that effect. Chances are if youre putting something up on a site you havent sent it off to a copyright office yet. Sure you may have done that old Mail It To Yourself trick but otherwise you dont have anything official. Chances are you might have just written that chapter of your story sitting around in your room earlier that day, printed it out and put it in the mail box for that mailing Cheap Mans copyright trick but thatll be awhile.
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Copyright is automatic. The moment you have written something, it's your copyright and you own it unless you decide to sell it or give it away. You don't need to go to an office or mail it to yourself. The mailing it to yourself thing is a safeguard against the day when somebody (possibly) plagiarises your work.