To clarify my previous post (and the errors pointed out therein by the list members) regarding registration:
Registration is not required for suits to enforce moral rights in works of visual arts, for foreign copyrights under the Berne convention, or for audio and visual works that are fixed at the moment of transmission. I believe it is still the general rule that registration is required for U.S. Nationals. If that's no longer the case, I'd appreciate a code citation to look at.
As for protection only of the registered portion works: clearly, I blew this one. The copyright office doesn't even want you to send an entire computer program -- if I recall correctly, they want the first and last 25 pages of source code printed out, which could be a small percentage of a gargantuan program like Microsoft Word.
To those who corrected me, thanks for the flame-free responses.
Kevin Grierson
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