RE: Registering Copyright in a web site

On Friday, October 25, 1996, Robert Cumbow <cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> wrote:
>
> I am told by the Copyright Office that Form TX is the correct one to
> use to register copyright in a web site. I routinely advise clients
> to expressly notice their copyright in "all protectable elements of
> the web site, including text, graphics, selection, arrangement, and
> overall design." I'm not convinced that a TX registration is broad
> enough to cover this. Anyone have any ideas (or, better still,
> experience) to share along this line?
>
> Bob Cumbow
> <cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com>

Whichever form turns out to be the right one should not limit your ability to claim protection of all copyrightable elements in a work. For example, TX is certainly the right form to use for an illustrated book, and if you created the text and the illustrations and claimed protection for them, Form TX clearly would lead to a registration protecting the words as well as the images.

Christopher Pesce
chrisp[_at_]corbis.com Received on Mon Oct 28 1996 - 20:11:48 GMT