It's just kind of frustrating, though...that technically the copyright is
automatic, but when it comes down to legal action it doesn't seem to do
much good. *sigh* I will also look into the ideas that Raven mentioned
for the future too.

This situation does mean that some of the stuff that I am working on now
will indeed be better protected because it will be for a larger project.


But not sure about this situation....I am waiting to hear back from one
of the others who had part of hir Pictish article posted there too (the
other's url no longer works) to see if we can pool some ideas and/or
resources. We'll see.

thanks,
Kym

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:01:11 -0000 "Michael Small"
<eumelosdrizzle@...> writes:
>
> Well if it makes you feel any better, copyrights are the only things
>
> you don't technically HAVE to apply for... they belong to you by
> default so if it ever came down to it, someone would have to try to
>
> prove you wrong. Having an officially registered copyright just
> makes that extremely unlikely.
>
> I think the 'mailing to yourself' thing can work (thats what I
> always used to think it was done)... but apparently its only
> slightly better than just having your default copyright by virtue of
>
> being the writer.
>
> I hope you have some luck with all of this...


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