Blog post protection pathway

摘要

Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing copyright protection for blog posts prior to publication from within a running blog-publishing software application by automatically assembling and electronically submitting a copyright application for the blog post to the United States Copyright Office through the use of a portable application programming interface, which may be utilized by third-party blog-publishing applications, and then automatically publishing the blog post through the blog-publishing application once submission of the electronic copyright application for the blog post is confirmed. Additionally disclosed is a method and system of registering a blog post in order to memorialize the creation of the blog post from within a running blog-publishing application through the use of a portable application programming interface, which may be utilized by third-party blog-publishing applications, and then automatically publishing the blog post through the blog-publishing application once registration of the blog post is confirmed.

主权项

1. A method for operating a host computing device to obtain copyright protection for a blog post within a blog-publishing application, the method comprising:
capturing a user inputted blog post by a blog-publishing application running on the host computing device; based upon user input received via the blog-publishing application running on the host computing device and from within the blog-publishing application, launching a copyright registration application running on the host computing device via an Application Program Interface (API) of the blog-publishing application running on the host computing device and an API of the copyright registration application running on the host computing device, wherein the API of the copyright registration application supports presentation of an icon within a user interface of the blog-publishing application, and wherein selection of the icon supports launching the copyright registration application; and the copyright registration application running on the host computing device: receiving the blog post from the blog-publishing application via the API of the blog-publishing application and the API of the copyright registration application; obtaining copyright registration information for the blog post based upon at least one of user input and stored data; accessing a remote copyright registration data web server via the Internet; retrieving recorded user information for a user from the remote copyright registration data web server; uploading the blog post to the remote copyright registration data web server;
receiving payment information via user input; interfacing with the remote copyright registration data web server to generate an electronic copyright application using the copyright registration information, the recorded user information, the payment information, and the blog post; interfacing with the remote copyright registration data web server to electronically submit the electronic copyright application to a copyright registration server; and receiving a confirmation of submission of the copyright registration application; automatically publishing the blog post by the blog-publishing application after the confirmation is received; and the copyright registration application running on the host computing device presenting an option to upload the blog post to the remote copyright registration data web server without applying for copyright registration.