Well, officially once you write something, it is copyrighted. You don't have to pay $35 to put © on it. However, in order to have some legal recourse if someone takes your work, you will want to be able to prove prior art (basically that you wrote it first). If you want to use the site to host your unpublished/unfinished works, why do you need them in the source code? Why not hide them? If papers and essays are all y…
Just FYI, prior art has to do with patents and is an unrelated concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
That's absolutely right. I was just reading about patents somewhere else and substituted the terms. Thanks for the catch.