Post #135176 by beachin on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 2:50 PM

On 2004-12-23 03:35, ToonToonz wrote:
The best way to copyright and get your added rights as the artist is to formally register your copyrighted works with the U.S. government. It is fairly simple and cheap to do. Just photograph or scan all your work onto a CD and, following their procedure, register your copyrights with the copyright office. Costs $30 for as many as you want to register at one time.
That way your copyright is officially dated and registered.

When I first became a professional artist (meaning dirt poor no income artist) I went to the gov site and read everything there was to read about copyrights, contracts, permissions, etc.

The way I understood it (because the government can't use normal english) is that it costs $30 for each piece. Did I read that wrong? The reason I'm asking is that two years ago, I might have been able to afford $30 for each piece, but now that is completely impossible.

I did know that I owned the copyright regardless of registration, and pray that it never comes up. I mean, I'm not even making money from my art, so I wish somebody else luck with that!

Do correct me if I read it wrong, because I can get a lot of pictures on a CD! For $30, I could register it all. There's a huge difference in money spent here.

After reading all of the comments in this thread, I hesitate to put anything else on ebay. My first experience hasn't been very nice, and I'm not any better off than I was before.

Would love to get feedback on this...since I've only started this business recently, I want to do it right. Otherwise I have to go get a job...(yea, right)