Copyright and License

[Courageous]

>    You do not have to register copyright and can not in most countries. To
> quote from the WIPO site (http://www.wipo.org/eng/main.htm):
>    """The laws of almost all countries provide that protection is
> independent of any formalities, that is, copyright protection starts as soon
> as the work is created. """
> 
>    Some countries may have required registration in the past but if they
> signed the Berne Convention then you automatically have copyright.
> Registration may make it easier to prove.

That's the understatment of the century. As a matter of legal practice,
in the United States your copyright is worthless if you don't have it
registered, most assuredly in particular if someone else does.

Failing to register a copyright is perfectly fine way to get good and
royally fucked. A word to the wise.

C/