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by bontoJR 4008 days ago
Yes, you are.

> A website — graphics, content, visual elements — is copyrighted at the time of development. So putting the copyright notice on the bottom of a site states that the material displayed is not to be used without permission of the owner. In fact, you don’t even need the notice to claim copyright; the law eliminated the requirement of public notice in 1989.

Source: http://www.sitepoint.com/what-it-means-to-copyright-a-websit...

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This source covers only US copyright law, not EU copyright law, not UK copyright law, not Russian copyright law, not Canadian copyright law, etc.
Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention:[0]

"The enjoyment and the exercise of these rights shall not be subject to any formality"

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Protection...