Reply With Quoteso unless one copyrights their work they will lose the copyright? what's the problem? just copyright your shit before you expose it to the world.Originally Posted by buttcheeks
THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THAT!
So... yeah. Fucking AWN scare articles.
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so unless one copyrights their work they will lose the copyright? what's the problem? just copyright your shit before you expose it to the world.
Try reading the article.
The main deal is that, according to that, you'd have to pay a private registry in order to "properly" copyright a work. That's a lot of time and money to do something that happens automatically (and for free) as it is now.
Upon reflection, there's no way something like this would go through.
Even though it was proven wrong. You(Jason) don't get the point.
Here Jason, since you are a musician. Let's say you invite all of TNL over to a bar to see you perform. You hand out to us sheet music to a song you are thinking of putting on your latest album. You play it for us and we are supposed to sing along at the chorus, hence the sheet music. In the end you don't use it. You file it away and forget it. One of us in six years hits it big and gets a TV show produced. They need a theme song and the person remembers that sheet music. Pulls it out and hands it to the execs. One day, you are sitting home and flipping through the channels and sees the intro to a TV show and you realize that's your song. Even though you did the old send the sheet music to yourself, you didn't file. Therefore, you are shit out of luck.
Last edited by Advocate; 14 Apr 2008 at 12:14 PM.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
I hadn't had time to read the counter article until like two minutes ago.
lol. It's all good. Jason didn't either.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
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don't need to read the article (although I just did), I already know I have to have my work copy written for a fee and have been doing so for years ($45 for a collection of music or a song is what I pay) although I'm not dealing with ART (drawings, paintings, etc.) I would assume it would be the same. If you value the work you are creating then it's a small price to pay for your peace of mind. How else would somebody prove it was their work first? the automatically free method is nice and all but not practical.
Last edited by Jason; 14 Apr 2008 at 01:16 PM.
You may be owning yourself by paying to register, is what I'm thinking.
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I just wouldn't want to be in court trying to prove something was mine without legal documentation is all.
The fees to record is what worries me. The Registries of Deeds in Massachusetts used to be cheap to put a Deed, Mortgage or whatever else on record. Then the real estate boom happens and all of a sudden it's 125.00 to record a Deed, and 175.00 for a mortgage, I've seen closing where the charges to put all of the documents on record exceeded one thousand dollars. When the slump came, the worst real estate crisis in decades, do you think they lowered those recording fees? Nope.
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