Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 At 04:19 PM 3/12/01 -0500, you wrote: >Tina, > >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. > >Steve >Annapolis Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com