Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley wrote: > > No! It is automatically copyrighted as soon as you take it. Registering > it with the copyright office only gives you the right to sue for punitive > damages and recover attorney's fees when you go to court. It must be > registered within 90 days of publication to give you these rights. > > "Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed > form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the > property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those > deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim > copyright." From the copyright site. > > I know this stuff because I have to! > > Tina > You go girl!! ;-) I'm glad someone actually knows what they're talking about on this stuff. B. D.