On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:10:50AM -0400, graywolf wrote: > > The issue with copyrights, trademarks, and patents is that they have been > ordained as property by law thus extending the same property rights to them. > And > because of that they have to be registered with the government before the > courts > will hear the case.
That is incorrect. But the copyright must be registered before the copyright violation can be prosecuted as a criminal (as opposed to civil) offence, and if the copyright is not registered you can only be awarded actual (rather than punitive) damages. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
