Fraud Alert

[Temple of Light]

[michael_B]

Bummer. Don't know what to tell you other than to ask why you just didn't go to copyright.gov and do it yourself?

[JLSound]

Also, Radman you may want to double check that your copyright effectively started 1 year, 49 weeks, and 4 days as well. I just received my certification for a song, but the effective date started in September '09. I 'efiled' directly with the US copyright office and submittted an mp3 in Sep. '09.

[BlueStrat]

Actually, your copyright started the minute your song(s) got put down in a tangible form like a piece of paper, tape, or a CDR. All you are doing is registering a copyright that already legally exists whether you register it or not.

 

As to the government being inefficient and slow....who didn't know that?

[//()()]

I mailed the forms (snail mail.. electronic option wasn't the way it is now) in early May 2008, and still have yet to receive ANYTHING. Is that longer than 1 year and 49 weeks?

[JLSound]

Actually, your copyright started the minute your song(s) got put down in a tangible form like a piece of paper, tape, or a CDR. All you are doing is registering a copyright that already legally exists whether you register it or not. As to the government being inefficient and slow....who didn't know that?

 

You are correct, but it could be difficult to prove unless something like registering the copyright is accomplished.

[BlueStrat]

 

You are correct, but it could be difficult to prove unless something like registering the copyright is accomplished.

 

 

Indeed. I just was correcting the misconception that copyright doesn't occur until registration is complete.

 

But even with registration, proving infringement is harder than most people think. Getting damages is harder still.

[restart]

Many infringement cases center on whether one party had access to the other parties material.

 

http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/proving+infringement

 

Inevitably, battles such as these are expensive to wage.