Originally Posted by BlueStrat Totally false. What's to stop anyone from mailing unsealed envelopes to themselves and then putting whatever they want in them after the fact?
Comment on the 'poor-man's' copyright; sending a mailed copy of the music and lyrics to yourself ... You're right, you can use vapour or anything to open the seal and put anything you want in the envelope however using wax (I know it sounds stupid but like in the olden times when they used wax and pressed down on it with a crest or something where the envelope would open), and if you ever try to open it, it messes up the design and would show. Using that method, a self mailed envelope could be used as a proof of creating the work no problem which is what your trying to do by copyrighting it in the first place. You want multiple 'proofs' of creating the music first so witnesses, a seal mailed envelope with that wax thing I'm talking about, registering it at some fancy office that asks you to pay them, whatever, the more proofs you have of creating something, the more protected you'll be.
