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Posted by Sherm Pendley on 06/12/07 09:28
Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> writes:
> Indeed, at least in the U.S., /the creation/ of a unique
> copyright-able work is legally sufficient to ensure the copyright:
> That is, the author does not need to register the copyright, the mere
> creation of the "art" is sufficient to guarantee copyrights.
I would still say that registration is important, for anything but the most
trivial of works. It's not a question of "better rights", but of placing a
positive assertion of your rights into the public record. Entering them into
evidence, as it were, in any future legal disputes concerning the copyright.
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