Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My understanding is that in the USA, to be able to collect punitive damages in a copyright lawsuit, the work must have been registered with the government (Library of Congress?). Normal damages are still collectable, and the work is deemed copyrighted as soon as it is created, regardless of whether or not you reistered it first. dan c. At 04:19 PM 12-03-01 -0500, Steve LeHuray wrote: > >I could be wrong, but I believe that is true providing you have actually >registered your work with the Copyright office. Just saying it is >copyrighted does not make it so.