In lieu of all the copyright hullabaloo, I thought it useful to post a little from 10 Big Myths About Copyright. 1) "If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted." This was true in the past, but today almost all major nations follow the Berne copyright convention. For example, in the USA, almost everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not. The default you should ...