Post #132639 by ToonToonz on Fri, Dec 24, 2004 7:06 AM

The purpose of registering a copyright also gives the author/artist additional protection. When one registers it and then one has to sue some one for unauthorized use of the art and one wins can also receive payment of your legal fees.
Without registration one cannot claim for legal fees.

Plus there are additional problems with the art in the postmarked envelope; such as:
Once the envelope is opened it is no longer any good. So if you have to sue more than one person for illegally copying one´s work, how do you prove in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th lawsuits that the date is correct?

And you can only put one work of art per envelope - whew! I´ve got hundreds and hundreds of pieces of copyrighted art - I would need one heck of a filing and storage system for all that.

The copyright system is cheap and effective and takes about as much time as the sealed envelope and postmark trick. (And have you tried to read the postmark on an envelope lately? - I can hardly ever read the date on it.)