If there is no Copy right on a site the person can not claim...?

All Web sites are copyrighted, whether they contain a copyright notice or not.

Copying all or part of another person's Web site requires that you get permission from that person.

So, yes, she still has to take the site down. It's illegal to make a copy of a site without permission, in the USA, in Canada, and in Norway.

YEs, a website is copyrighted even if it doesn't "say so", as copyright notice has been optional since 1989, under the Berne Convention Implementation Act. The web only became available to the public after that, so it is simple to assume that everything not previously published is automatically copyrighted on the web.

On the other hand, if the person is claiming she copied a bedding design that she actually came up with herself (and actually never saw the original anywhere), then she should tell them to pound sand. By definition, it is NOT copyright infringement if there was no copying, regardless of whether the original is copyrighted properly or not. However, there have been cases where the only necessary proof of copying was that the original had been "widely disseminated" in the related field, e.g., magazines or art brochures, and the like.

By law, an author, artist, or photographer has the rights to his own work, even if he doesn't explicitly say so.

If your friend copied someone else's site, she should take it down and create her own. It isn't that hard to do, or she could probably get a college student to design her a new one pretty cheaply. Or she could use a free blog with a choice of layouts. She doesn't have to take someone else's artwork or design in order to have a nice website of her own.

this would be something she would want to discuss with her lawyer and the person who claimed it's lawyer. it's possible it is copyrighted but they didn't put the copyright information on the site.