You are wrong. In any country that's participant of the Berne copyright convention (and that includes just about all countries these days), you don't need to do anything "official" to get copyright protection for your photographs or other creative works, they're "born copyrighted" so to speak. No registration of any kind is legally required.
Yes, but there is something called "innocent infringment, where someone can argue that because your images had no visible copyright, they thought they were in the public domain. It becomes very hard to fight that type of use. So a visible copyright somewhere is preferable.
My gallery photos are on the extreme end of watermarking:
http://www.photoethnography.com/gallery/index.html
But at least no one can claim they didn't know!
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