quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Yes, because the way you stated it made an implication that you would have to register copyright to protect it and that no protection existed before registration. |
I don't know where you got that idea--I wrote that they would have to register to file infringement suits for $150,000 (statutory damages), which they do.
quote: | Besides, you left out the most important part of 411(a) which says that registration is only an issue when it doesn't fall under 106A(a), which it clearly does. |
Section 106A applies only to "works of visual art," which are defined in Section 101 as follows:
quote: | A “work of visual art” is—
(1) a painting, drawing, print, or sculpture, existing in a single copy, in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author, or, in the case of a sculpture, in multiple cast, carved, or fabricated sculptures of 200 or fewer that are consecutively numbered by the author and bear the signature or other identifying mark of the author; or
(2) a still photographic image produced for exhibition purposes only, existing in a single copy that is signed by the author, or in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author. | (emphasis mine)
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