Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WE WUZ ROBBED!-Copyright law
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:37:52 -0500

>

Tina wrote:

 > 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.

That is the point that I was feebly trying to make.
>
> "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.

And what is the point of having a copyright from the moment of creation if
can not sue?

sl
>
> 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
>