Hi..being new to webhosting I though I would ask a question here that someone might help me with. It is I believe a legal issue so I hope someone may help. The question is: Is a webpage/website created by a person for viewing on the Internet automatically copyright or does the owner of the website have to 'register' the idea, text, layout etc before it is actually copyright? There seems to be a gray area with all this. I hope some internet copyright layer is looking at this and would like to offer an opinion :D Thanks

Automatically,

The idea and the layout is hard to say is copyrighted however text and images are

Check out this site for a more in depth explanation :)

http://questy.com/tech/inet6.htm

Thanks all. I appreciate your input, especially the 'questy' link, very helpful!