gecko zzed
Grumpy Mod
No, it doesn't remove your right. However, I note your pertinent observation here:Not using it does not remove your right, does it? Not in the UK it doesn't.
In copyright disputes, evidence is everything.
No, it doesn't remove your right. However, I note your pertinent observation here:Not using it does not remove your right, does it? Not in the UK it doesn't.
In copyright disputes, evidence is everything.
Meh. I don't. If someone stole my song I'd be so excited about it.
Evidence is easy - email your songs to yourself or to someone you trust. You can't fake those dates that I'm aware of.
I give up.
I give up.
I don't see how what I said contradicts anything said in this thread. Yes, registration is better - that's your point, right? (notice I am guessing what your point is, because you declined to provide an explanation for no apparent reason).
how would you prefer to see it work?
If you haven't registered it, you don't have any protection, because you can't prove you're the author. The medium is irrelevant.
Bingo, that's what I think, but I can't say how definitive that is or isn't here.In copyright disputes, evidence is everything. Evidence as to when something existed is probably the critical one.
That's the other rub. If someone steals your stuff, it's likely to be no small amount of time, cost and effort to beat them back. Unless this is your livelihood, you'd have to seriously question if it's worth it.Copyright is in many ways like libel actions. You may be 100% able to initiate action, but can you afford to?
Which would mean registration would be better but anyway......that isn't only way to prove ownership. Email is admissible evidence in court FYI. I'm not saying it would automatically overrule a copyright, but IMO it should. As mentioned earlier, "timing is everything" (or should be).Maybe you didn't read the whole thread. Registration being better wasn't my point. My point was, in the US, there is only one way to prove your ownership of copyrightable material.
And yet you copyright anyway Yeah, as you pointed out, the odds are slim, but there's always that chance.Not that any of this matters, it's all academic. None of us are ever going to have our songs ripped off nor have need to prove ownership.
As has already been discussed and pointed out, no, it's not.That's how it is.
If you mean acceptable in court, obviously it does.Whether or not loose or flakey attempts at proof may be acceptable doesn't really matter.
Nope. Fixed in tangible form simply means it is on some medium you can hold, like paper (as in sheet music or charts), a CD, tape, vinyl, etc. It means it isn't an idea in your head.
I am pretty sure an mp3 or a wav file is a fixed form for the purposes of copyright law in the US. Being able to hold it in your hand is an out-dated way of looking at it.
https://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/copyright-faq
https://books.google.com/books?id=G...onepage&q=copyright MP3 a fixed form?&f=false
I think I'm out too.