01-29-2007, 12:39 PM
littlefranciscan Wrote:if you have something written on paper that you wrote on the internet with the date etc..maybe you can..I was told if you want to copyright something simply put it in an envelope and mail it to yourself.
Yes, that is the "cheap copyright" way to have some kind of registration of your work. Just make sure you seal the envelope and sign it on the places that could be open, to demonstrate that it hasn't been opened. And of course, once you receive it, DO NOT OPEN IT. In case that you have to prove you wrote something at a certain time and someone else copied, the judge will have to see the envelope sealed with the date of the Post stamp. But according to the international copyrights laws, the moment you put the © symbol with your name and year, it is already giving you the rights of the work to you. The registration is only to confirm it and to have the legal record that you are the author of that work.