Flounder - Someone's ripping you off - Tiki Carving

K Kim Member Portland, OR Joined: Feb 24, 2003 Posts: 135	K Kim Posted posted on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 4:16 PM Since the "mail it to yourself" thing is so frequently sited as a way to "prove copyright", I want to repeat this: On 2004-12-24 07:06, ToonToonz wrote: Without registration one cannot claim for legal fees. In order to recover legal fees your copyright must be legally registered with the Copyright Office before you learn of the alleged copyright violation. Postmarks do not cut it. If your copyright is not registered before you learn of a violation, you cannot seek to recover legal fees. Unless you have the $$ to pay your own lawyer, this means you can't really do anything beyond asking the violator to stop.

Since the "mail it to yourself" thing is so frequently sited as a way to "prove copyright", I want to repeat this:

On 2004-12-24 07:06, ToonToonz wrote:
Without registration one cannot claim for legal fees.

In order to recover legal fees your copyright must be legally registered with the Copyright Office before you learn of the alleged copyright violation. Postmarks do not cut it.

If your copyright is not registered before you learn of a violation, you cannot seek to recover legal fees. Unless you have the $$ to pay your own lawyer, this means you can't really do anything beyond asking the violator to stop.

Post #132905 by Kim on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 4:16 PM