Posted by Ed Mullen on 06/12/07 17:25

Sherm Pendley wrote:
> 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.
>
> sherm--
>
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#hsc

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