| User | vohomegirl | | Topic | copywrite | | Message | to do this: can you email yourself a copy of your work or does it have to be a hardcopy sent via snailmail? |
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| User | FrankBlissett | 2006-03-02 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Regarding eMail, you can just change the date on your computer to put whatever time stamp on that you want. Of course, you MAY be able to track the date down from the server - if the isp keeps the info for however many years, and if they will actually do it.
The safest way of all (except not writing it in the first place) is to have an uninterested third party (ie the copyright office) date the work. The next best way is to be very public with your work.
-Frank |
| User | FrankBlissett | 2006-03-02 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Does not work! If you do and have to go to court you’ll be laughed at by everyone there - here’s why.
The other guy’s lawyer will mail himself an unsealed envelope, a month before the trial. Then, the morning of teh trial he’ll put a clipping of that morning’s paper in teh envelope and seal it. He’ll then proceed, in court, to open up an envelope postmarked a month earlier with that day’s paper in it, and say to you "what proof do you have that you didn’t do this very same scheme?"
-Frank |
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