Website Cop - Copyright Protection on the Internet

In today's rapidly expanding communicating world, the delivery of information and news is becoming ever popular. The need for more information and the desire to provide more information is a part of everyday life for us all.

Be it at home or at work, social or pleasure our carnivorous demand for this information is on the increase in gigantic proportions. But along with this comes the money grabbers, those out to make a 'quick buck!', pirates, thieves etc. basically a whole new underworld of crime and deception.

These people will, at the drop off a hat and without a blink of an eye, steel, rob, cheat and copy anything they can get their hands on for their own financial gain. This trend is now sadly becoming a way of life, and in various ways we are all extremely vulnerable. .

The internet, through its own success, has provided a means to exploit the work and creations of others. through copying, imitating and passing off the work and creations of others.The laws regarding copyright issues are laid out in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ) and the European Digital Copyright Directive ( EUCD )

Websitecop has been put together by a small group of website owners, digital intellectual property creators and photographers in an attempt to help stamp out these illegal acts and to bring to task those who insist on copying the hard work of others for their own gain. We actively pursue violators on behalf of our clients to have the copied material removed, and where necessary issue Take Down Notices to the internet service provider ( ISP ) and the top search engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask. ISPs and Search Engines cannot knowingly hold or display copied material and as such must remove it from their servers. 

 When someone copies your work, you know that it's yours, but providing evidence to the fact may be harder than you first thought. By having an independent third party, like Websitecop, acknowledge your work, you are provided with a point in history by which you can prove the work is yours. This can be done by placing one of our banners on your index page and then send an email with you name, postcode and website address to us.