Digital Millennium Copyright Act Services Ltd. operates www.dmca.com which provides a range of services designed to help website operators do the following:
The DMCA WaterMarker plugin for WordPress allows you to easily integrate DMCA.com's page protection badges into your word press site.
The DMCA Badges plugin for WordPress is used to notify would be thieves that the owner of intellectual property actively asserts copyright, and is willing to pursue infringement procedures.
This makes it less likely that your content will be stolen in the first place. Displaying, and registering, Protection Badges on your site provide the following benefits:
For more information about benefits and services visit www.dmca.com
To install the DMCA Badge plugin, either install the plugin directly from the WordPress Plugin Repository, or download the ZIP file to your computer, unzip the file's contents, and use FTP to place the DMCA Badge plugin into your wp-content/plugins folder. Once the files are installed on your website, go to the Plugins menu on your Administration Dashboard and activate DMCA Badge.
Once installed and activated, you can use the DMCA Badge page in your Dashboard's Settings Menu to specify how your choice of badge should be displayed in posts and pages. You can also choose to display your badge sitewide using the DMCA Badge Widget.
To enable tracking of your content, enter your DMCA.com Pro account and password. Alternately you can enter your email address and create a password to register your content with DMCA's tracking portal.
This section of the settings page lets you choose where you want your badge displayed. At the minimum, a DMCA Badge should appear in the footer of every page served up by your website. This is most easily accomplished by configuring a widget to display the badge in the footer.
If you want your badge to be displayed in content areas, simply check the appropriate boxes in the form. You can automatically display badges in pages that show a single post, in archive pages, in posts only, etc.
If you leave all the boxes unchecked, you will need to manually embed the code displayed next to your choice of DMCA Badges for a badge to be displayed on your site.
An inline frame of applicable DMCA Badges (not shown here) will enable you to choose the badge you feel most closely coordinates with your site's theme. When you click on a badge, it will be shown along with the appropriate embed code for manually placing a badge.
Once you click the Save Changes button, your WordPress site will display your choice of DMCA Badge in the location(s) you have selected.
At a minimum. your WordPress site needs to display your DMCA Badge on every page. You can easily place your choice of badge into any widget area your theme provides using the DMCA Badge Widget.
To use the widget, expand the Dashboard's Appearance menu and click on Widgets. Open any widget area your theme provides, and drag the DMCA Badge Widget into that widget area. There are no settings to save since the widget uses the Settings Page entries to determine which badge to display. Your badge is automatically displayed in the sidebar area of your choice. The widget display can be in addition to any post or page settings you checked in the Theme Integration section of the Settings Page.