In article <315c6533.50763730@news.neosoft.com>, jjsims@neosoft.com says...

>> The copyright is granted upon the creation of the work, the creator >>"claims" the copyright by marking the
>>work accordingly. (Either by using the copyright symbol, or the word
>>"copyright" itself, along with the year of the copyright and the name >>of the copyright holder.) Registration of the actual image with the
>>copyright office does entitle you to sue for punitive damages in the
>>event of infringement; that is about the only advantage to >>registration.

>Arrgghhh!!!! Please don't go passing around advice until you know what >you are talking about. Who knows how many people may be misled by your
>misinformation. Do a bit of research on the subject at the very least >if you insist on posting about copyrights as if you are some sort of >authority.
>...I'll never be amazed at the number of people who persist in >lecturing on copyright (or any other aspect of the law for that matter) >when they clearly have very little knowledge of the subject.

Hmmmm, having gotten mighty close to bringing a copyright infringement
case against someone once (and having read the law, and talked with
some folks with some experience), what the poster said above is pretty much the way I understood copyright law to be in the US. Rather than
put the poster down, why don't you enlighten us, if the above is incorrect?
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