Copyright

[Paul Wagorn]

I used to work for the Patent/Copywright office.

The sealed envelope (you just have to do it with yourself)  is good if you
get to litigation & you
need to prove when your design was done.  The best thing to do, is do this
when you are *coming up*  with the idea, and
before you copywright it.  That way, you can prove when you were coming up
with it, so nobody can steal
the idea before it's officially done.  Some designs takes years to develop,
and then subsequently copywright.

The price of a copywright is cheap once you finish the design....  it's just
nice to have some legacy documentation, too.

btw, don't *mail* it to yourself, use registered mail.   these are recorded.

-Paul




> Hi all,
>
> I used to design lamps and did alot of reading
> about copyrighting to protect my designs.  The
> suggestion was to pay the cost of registering
> the copyright.
>
> However, I did read about the sealed envelope
> technique.  What some authors suggested is that
> you mail the envelope not to yourself, but to
> several respected and trustsorthy friends, or l
> awyers, or I think even the copyright people,
> don't remember well, I'll have to check the
> books.
>
> Plinio
>
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