That's some good tips you posted DoubleD, didn't knew about google autorship. Thanks!
Well that's a helping hand from DoubleD3, thanks for the share.
Its not that possible to protect your content once it went online, but your content will be treated as source content, so you don't need to worry about it.
I use this http://www.wordpresslab.net/wp-copyr.php (no affiliation)
I always link to one of my tier 2's as my content is usually scraped by shitty sites.