Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 03, 2003 01:07 AM
No, you don't have to file before you can bring charges. But if you have paid the minimal fee (last time I heard it was $25, about 2 years ago), you have a much better chance of winning your suit. It constitutes official legal notice of your copyright. Without it, you need to have some sort of log to prove when you actually created the work to present to the court.
I suspect most lawyers won't take a copyright case unless you've already filed for the copyright (creating a defacto requirement), but that is not the same thing as a LEGAL requirement to do so.
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Re:You are opening yourself up for a lawsuit!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 03, 2003 01:07 AMI suspect most lawyers won't take a copyright case unless you've already filed for the copyright (creating a defacto requirement), but that is not the same thing as a LEGAL requirement to do so.
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