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Since that almost everything on the Internet nowadays is copyright protected, including this article, it is really hard to oversee the magnitude of copyright issues which may arise in case of a Internet copyright infringement situation. How far is something copyright protected, if it is publicly displayed on the Internet? How can someone make sure that his work on the internet is not infringed upon and plagiarized, and what to do if it is? The bad news go first, so here it is: Although the work on the Internet is basically copyright protected, unless someone infringes upon it and makes some serious money with it, you will not be able to do much against it. Best case scenario is that you notify the administrator or the host of the website and you notify that person of the copyright issue. Normally this host or admin takes immediate action and removes the copyright protected material. But the Internet is the playfield of all copyright pirates, just think of all the copyrighted music that is more or less readily available for download almost anywhere. A simple search for a certain mp3 piece by any artist you like, let's say by using the Google