--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Kenneth Allan <> wrote:
> Copyeight work cannot be defended in Federal Court, until it
> is
> registered with the US copyright office.
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>
> Every written creation is automatically protected under
> full copyright law the moment it
> is created.
> Registration is optional not required.
To be fair, I think that was the law prior to the Copyright Act of of 1976. I recall a friend who worked at a local movie theater telling me, (before 1976), that they got an urgent call from the distributor to not show a certain movie that was accidentally shipped without the required copyright statement. Another thing that was removed in the Copyright Act.