How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site?
dkokelley: 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will want to be able to prove prior art (basically that you wrote it first).If you want to use the site to host your unpublished/unfinished works, why do you need them in the source code?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 you will be using the site for, you might consider just installing Wordpress and using it to manage everything. It will keep unfinished works hidden until you're ready to publish them, and Wordpress has a datestamp that can be applied to posts to give some simple protection. Of course the datestamp could be altered and there's nothing keeping me from copying everything and putting an earlier date on it.