1. Copyright Disclaimer

Use a copyright disclaimer when the content on your website or app is exclusively owned by you and copyrighted by you.

Copyright disclaimers are simple and include the following components:

Your name or business name
Year you produced the content
Copyright symbol
Reservation of rights (all rights reserved, etc.)
Here’s how it works:

You have a blog, and you’ve been publishing since 2024 and continue to publish your own material in 2024. To add a copyright, you can add the disclaimer to the bottom of your homepage with the name of your blog or business, the copyright symbol, and the years 2024. The disclaimer then provides blanket copyright across all content that appears on your site.

When you place a copyright disclaimer on your work, you’re providing yourself with five rights to your work that only you can transfer. Only you have the right to:

Create or make copies
Create new versions
Perform or place the work in public
Display it
Distribute or publish it
These rights mean that anyone who adapts, modifies, or distributes the work as their own – whether you’ve published it or not – has violated your copyright disclaimer.

Consider adding a copyright disclaimer in one or more of the following places:

Website homepage
App store listing
Terms & Conditions
Email footers
Within any downloadable content
Avis offers a simple copyright disclaimer in the bottom right corner of its website.

It includes the copyright symbol, the year the copyright extends to, and the businesses full name:

Avis 2019 Copyright notice

The Economist is a renowned international publication that distributes material in both print and digital forms. Its copyright disclaimer is found at the bottom right-hand corner of its homepage:

The Economist Newspaper 2019 Copyright notice

The legal team at The Economist added an additional piece to its disclaimer: the rights reservation. “All rights reserved” is important here because it produces a vast amount of content including writing, graphics, and videos that could be shared, adapted, or even brazenly stolen.