Is it illegal to state something is copyrighted when it in fact is not? If it is, what steps can one go threw in order to make it legal?
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Once it's written, it's protected by copyright. If you mean someone's saying they own a copyright that actually belongs to someone else, then it depends... if it's your work they're claiming ownership of, you can contact a lawyer, have it deindexed from search engines, often get their host to pull the content down if they won't, etc.