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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6295764" data-attributes="member: 70">Well, to keep from losing it, put it on Google Drive or Dropbox, and update that file periodically.As far as keeping someone from stealing your files...are you looking for advice on encrypting files? Or legal advice? Legally, one protects creative works through copyright (which you get automatically) and trademarking (which you must apply for and is very limited).&nbsp; And lawyers. A license doesn't protect you; copyright already gives the maximum control over your work you can have, licensing is always about allowing others to use something of yours.&nbsp; Thus my confusion. You've automatically got as much legal protection as you're going to have.You could (and should) save a copy of your master file at least once a week, so you have backups from various points in time. I use the date, so &quot;masterfile5-1-13.txt&quot;, for instance. That allows you to &quot;roll back&quot; the clock if you need to for some reason, and provides evidence of the creation of the work, which is something a thief wouldn't have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6295764, member: 70"] Well, to keep from losing it, put it on Google Drive or Dropbox, and update that file periodically. As far as keeping someone from stealing your files...are you looking for advice on encrypting files? Or legal advice? Legally, one protects creative works through copyright (which you get automatically) and trademarking (which you must apply for and is very limited). And lawyers. A license doesn't protect you; copyright already gives the maximum control over your work you can have, licensing is always about allowing others to use something of yours. Thus my confusion. You've automatically got as much legal protection as you're going to have. You could (and should) save a copy of your master file at least once a week, so you have backups from various points in time. I use the date, so "masterfile5-1-13.txt", for instance. That allows you to "roll back" the clock if you need to for some reason, and provides evidence of the creation of the work, which is something a thief wouldn't have. [/QUOTE]

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