Re: Advice-giving audience for my composition?

In article <1138258024.505339.51660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
notejam <notejam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Get it copyrighted before you ever post it, or you will give it away.
>Just having your name and a copyright notice is not enough to stop
>someone from taking the song if you have not registered it, as such
>will not stand up in court.

???

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html

Having it registered won't prevent somebody from taking it, but legal
protection applies from the moment it's created. Registration provides
additional protection, and will be necessary if you ever have to
sue. Goofy actions like mailing it to yourself are of no benefit, at
least in the American system, because the Postmaster is not the
Register of Copyrights.





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