Title: Proving you created your posts
Last modified: August 21, 2023

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# Proving you created your posts

 *  [ketanco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketanco/)
 * (@ketanco)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proving-you-created-your-posts/)
 * Let’s say you write really good articles. As we all know anything you post on
   internet can get copied. After a while it is even possible that your article 
   or parts of it (even in sligjtly modified form) will exist in many places without
   the later copiers knowing where it all originated.
 * What if someone registers that as their own copyright and come after you ? How
   do you prove you created that post first ? Is emailing to yourself on the day
   you created it a good method? I know it is called poor man’s copyright and not
   substitute for real registration but we are not talking about going after someone
   here. We are only talking about creating a proof that you made that post first
   IF someone later comes after you with your content ( i know this is a very unlikely
   situation but you never know)…
 * I know registering your work with copyright office saves the headache but it 
   is not very practical or cheap if you make many posts.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proving-you-created-your-posts/#post-16987940)
 * I’m not a lawyer, so don’t take this as legal advice, but you could save your
   posts to the Internet Archive at [https://web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org)
   after publication.
 * You and the offender can change time stamps on your own sites, but neither of
   you can change the Internet Archive’s time stamps.
 * It’s also a good practice in general for preserving your work.
 *  Thread Starter [ketanco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketanco/)
 * (@ketanco)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proving-you-created-your-posts/#post-16988322)
 * How do you save your post there? I followed the link you sent and when i scroll
   down i see a save page button. So i enter my posts link and hit save page button
   and that’s it ?
 * is there a fee or subscription or anything else i might want to know about it?
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proving-you-created-your-posts/#post-16989624)
 * It’s a free service. Go back to that page and look for the “Save Page Now” field,
   and just put the URL of your newly published post into that.

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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proving-you-created-your-posts/#post-16989624)
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