Copyright

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Ingo Debus <debus at cityweb.de> wrote:
>
>
>patchell wrote:
>> The whole idea behind the "mail it to yourself" thing as it was explained to
>> me once is mostly to establish "when" you had the idea.
>
>But a person can always send a unsealed (open) envelope to himself.
>Then, much later, put anything into it, seal it, and claim he was the
>one who had the idea first.
>
>I doubt any court would accept it.

Right, but that's why the suggestion to have it hand canceled and put
postal date stamps across the envelope seal.  When I did this, the
postal clerk asked if it was for copyright.  I said yes and he did
this by default.  It's awfully difficult to reseal an envelope and
not screw this up.

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