How to protect your website content from being stolen

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What is DMCA protection?

If you are content writer/blogger of any niche, you must be worried about your content as it can be stolen by some other website or blog owner that means someone can take benefit of your hard work.

DMCA is Digital Millennium Copyright Act that helps to protect your creative works on the internet and also the legal foundation for rights management in digital works. DMCA protects your videos, graphics, articles, images etc. You can warn thieves by adding DMCA Protection Badge to your website or blog.

What is DMCA badge?

Many websites claim that every day their valuable content is stolen and they are unable to do anything to stop this activity. Websites owners are unable to do anything as they are unaware that something can be done to stop this activity and concerned about their content.

DMCA badge is a seal of protection for websites. You can add DMCA badge to your website by copying the code from DMCA.com and paste in your website layout. You can also choose design and appearance of badge according to your choice. By DMCA badge you can warn thieves that you can takedown their fraudulent and thieving websites.

                                                                                                                                                                          

DMCA offers two type of protection- Basic Protection and Protection Pro. Basic protection is free which is designed for small and personal websites and by using it anyone can protect their content from thieves while Pro Protection is not free and it is designed for professional websites and businesses that need the best security.

How to takedown website?

If someone stole your content like photos, videos, graphics, DMCA.com will help you to takedown their website. You just have to complete quick and simple takedown form. DMCA helps you to remove your stolen content from the fraudulent website and also provide step by step instructions to takedown the websites.