John Francis wrote: >On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:19:55PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> But if you don't *register* your copyright with the copyright office, >> you can't (in the U.S. anyway) take an infringer to court. > >That's not my understanding. > >If you don't register the copyright, you can't have an action brought >for criminal copyright infringement, and you can't receive a statutary >damage award. But you can still (attempt to) go after them for actual >damages (probably in small claims court).
Nope. Copyright issues can be heard *only* in Federal court. They were very specific about that at the ASMP seminar. If you don't register, you can forget going to court. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
