Re: copyright under stress

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000, Kevin Grierson <kgrierson[_at_]wilsav.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Not for US nationals either. Registration IS required, and is jurisdictional, to get into federal court, although some circuits aren't as fussy as others about how much before filing suit you register.

Harold Federow
<haroldf[_at_]bsquare.com> Received on Fri Jun 23 2000 - 16:19:26 GMT