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These days almost everything on the Internet carries a copyright notice, Pictures,websites articles and often people acquire these materials the find the owner is threatening legal action for infringing their copyright.
When this happens Don’t panic most of these threats are just that worded to scare you into removing the material, however you may not have to, see although placing a copyright © on a page or a picture it does not mean that the owner is eligible to sue.
In order for the owner of a work to sue for infringement that work must be duly registered for Intellectual property copyright and General copyright in the country the infringement has occurred, now the Berne Convention does allow basic transfer of copyright between participating countries but the fact remains there needs to be a physical copyright in place to legally sue someone for copyright infringement.
This being the case it is your right to challenge the owner of the work to provide proof that a Registered copyright indeed exists and without that proof you are not legally required to honor any copyright notices .
Courts will not hear cases where no Registered Copyright or Intellectual property Copyright exists, the same might be said for trademarks and brands however it is more likely that a trademark or brand has been registered whereas most website designers, amateur artists even software developers falsely rely on if they have the © on their work it is covered.
Now i am not a lawyer but i do know how to read and there are plenty of articles written by experts on copyright law available on the internet which outline how to copyright a work so that it has legal status, I have included below a few of these links where i sourced my information for this article.

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property. [Link added: March 2007].

Current text of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property. [Link added: March 2007.]

Intellectual Property Law directory at Yahoo!

Bitlaw – A Resource for Technology Law (U.S. based web site), with very useful information regarding intellectual property in general and internet publishing.

R.I.G.H.T.S. – Redistribution in Graphics Has to Stop

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My Viral Blog will no longer be offering free blog hosting services.

When Initially launched the intent of My Viral Blog was to offer free hosting for online bloggers interested in for profit blogging and owning a home based business. In the past several months though, what was hoped to be a well received project adding value to our systems and sites has turned into an attention and money pit with massive attacks from blog spammers and link sellers using illegal methods to rip off the webmasters of the world.

My average week since inception has revolved around deleting around 2500 spam accounts per week including fake blogs designed only to create a back link. This process takes around 5-6 hours per week alone, another 6-10 hours per week has been spent to research and improve blog security and blacklist attacking domains and IP strings.

Along the way we have developed a popular blog and are seeing increased back links, syndication of our articles and post, and support for our training in blog, social media, and search engine marketing. The efforts to improve on this have resulted in a PR4 ranking from Google which could be higher if it were not for the spammers who create pages we must later delete. The deleted pages and fake blogs with no unique content result in a penalty to our blog's Page Ranks and indexing by generating too many indexed and site mapped links that result in a 404 error page or blank blogs linking to the home that appear to search engines like gateway pages which are heavily penalized and can result in de-listing.

Dropping the free blogs and it's effect on users:

As a result we have shut off new blog creations and are giving notice to our bloggers to retrieve their SQL back ups in order to move their blogs to other hosting either self hosted or through other free services. Those seeking affordable blog hosting with large account space and unlimited bandwidth and unlimited domain names are welcome to check out Velocity Marketer Hosting. Pound for pound our hosting service offers features not found at comparable prices and service that is above and beyond expectations.

Velocity Marketer and My Viral Blog are making some minor and major changes this week to streamline business operations and focus our service and resources. Other major announcements will follow over the next few days as we return to a 100% blog at My Viral Blog and begin spending more time writing articles and less time consumed by blog security issues.

Thanks for all you do,

Andy Zeus Anderson

MVB Admin

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