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Originally Posted by cyan3
In England the copyright law's state all work you create or design is copyrighted to you automatically the second you create it.
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This is correct. However, there are precautions that can be taken. This method cannot be used in the United States as it is dismissed as feasible copyright evidence: In the UK, you can send all of your work through, printed off I'd imagine, via registered mail and make sure it is post-marked, this provides proof that it is your work and shows the date that it was made. However, I can see the obvious downfalls to this due to levels being able to be accessed etc. This is known as the "Poor man's copyright"
However, as cyan3 stated, once the piece of work has been created, it is under copyright to the creator, as in the UK and Australia it states that a binding copyright for a limited period of time is set upon a piece of work as long as some skill, labour and judgement has gone into the piece.
I am not too sure about the length nor the relevance of this to the United States.
In the case where the work is uploaded to a server, I would imagine that the work, once passed on to a 3rd member.. I.e. other than your person in order to use it on their own property (In this case a Graal server) that the copyright is null and void and the piece then would belong to whomever has control of the server file-system. Which would be the server owner, unless Linux Cyberjouers considers this to be their data seeing as it is on THEIR file-system but it is being leased to a 3rd party.