[RWebb]

IT does not take much to have a work with a Copyright -- phone books & maps have them. The little trick is to put some inaccurate entries in, and it then becomes an "original" work, as nostatic noted above.

Also - you have a Copyright when the work is created (even as draft). You do NOT have to register to have a Copyright -- Registration allows you to get presumed damages tho -- i.e. easier to sue somebody and win.

Copyrights are violated all the time on the internet, but there is some peril associated with 'getting away with it' - some day you might get called on by a guy's lawyers....

Also, IIRC and I'm not sure I do - no rpift or even a profit motive has to be shown re Copyright violations.