Re: Harpsichordist (Was: web-publishing & copyright...)

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Timothy Arnold-Moore <tja[_at_]mds.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>
> [conditioning attorney's fees and statutory damages on registration] is
> an imposition of a formality, plain and simple.

It's an imposition of a formality on an additional extraordinary remedy, not as a condition of exercising the rights in the copyright. Without registration, you're still allowed your the standard remedy of actual damages.

It's difficult for many English-based countries to realize that attorney's fees _are_ an extraordinary remedy in the U.S., because of the standard in those countries to award attorney's fees to the prevailing party.

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