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  Emily Kittredge Hummel February 15, 2009 at 4:47am

  John, Wolfgang, and Steve -- Update:
  
  I posted portions of my text on "my" page -- trusting others will see .....
  
  Word Over The World!!
  
  Love, In Christ, Emily
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  Emily Kittredge Hummel January 20, 2009 at 2:11pm

  Thank you John, Wolfgang, and Steve,
  
  I appreciate all of your help -- what diligent brothers in Christ you are!
  Sound point John. Enlightening point from you Wolfgang.
  Steve - thanks for checking it out, too.
  I'll be putting something(s) up soon.
  
  God Bless You much.
  Expect Miracles.
  
  Love, Emily
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  Wolfgang Schneider January 5, 2009 at 8:05am

  Hi,
  as concerning writings being "not yet copyrighted", I am wondering if these works in fact are actually already copyrighted according to the Berne Convention. It used to be that prior to 1989 in the USA works needed to be specifically declared / registered in order to be copyrighted because the USA had not signed the Berne Convenation. Since then, the stipulation of the Berne Convention applies. The following is an excerpt from WIkipedia page on "copyright" which explains some details concerning the matter of when a work is regarded as "copyrighted" in accordance with the Berne Conventino.
  
  

  "Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not "register" or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention. As soon as a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work, and to any derivative works unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them, or until the copyright expires. The Berne Convention also resulted in foreign authors being treated equivalently to domestic authors, in any country signed onto the Convention. The UK signed the Berne Convention in 1887 but did not implement large parts of it until 100 years later with the passage of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. The USA did not sign the Berne Convention until 1989."
  Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

  I hope the information may prove helpful for you.
  Cheers,
  Wolfgang
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  John Richeson January 5, 2009 at 5:55am

  Emily if you post it in a PDF document you might be able to make that PDF document such that it can not be saved to a person's local computer, thereby making it read only. Aslo you could insert a digital signature in the PDF file and state that the material is not to be copied. I would say most people would respect that request. Here is an example of a pdf file I posted on the site. As you can see it can be saved on your local computer and then of course emailed to anyone.
  
  Also keep in mind that even if you make your document not downloadable, someone can still simply open up the document and retype it on a new document. I believe that is called plagiarism. It has happened a lot through the years.
  
  Maybe you can add a copyright statement on there to warn people not to copy or duplicate.
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  Emily Kittredge Hummel January 5, 2009 at 5:43am

  Hi John --
  
  Is there a way to post writings in a way that they cannot be downloaded? Like a tightly sealed "view only" feature??
  
  I have some writings that are not yet copyrighted that I'd like to share on my page here -- but want to keep them "in house/hold" of the Way Corps only.
  
  Blessings,
  
  Emily Kittredge Hummel