Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00030)

At 10:26 AM 7/11/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>John:
>> The issue of "is the matter published" becomes somewhat of a moot point
>the
>> moment that copies of the material are made and distributed. As long as
>the
>> author has not made one copy of his material, he cannot copyright it. For
>> example, you cannot copyright your diary, because you have not published
>it.
>
>This is very complicated.  However I do know that a single copy of a MS can
>be copyrighted, because it was done for one MS I know of.  So distribution
>or publication is not needed; in that example anyway.
>
>Nicholas

Under current law, no explicit registration is needed. Copyright is
automatic once the work is created and fixed in a medium. Only when
litigation is needed, a formal registration may be necessary. Otherwise,
the copyright office will be inundated as well as it is very expensive to
register every piece of writing, even this msg!

mkr


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