Re: Reclassification - Wordperfect

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Under the current Copyright Act, copyright attaches at the moment an
original work is fixed in a tangible medium.  Another way of saying this is
that unpublished works are protected without the necessity for the author to
take any affirmative steps other than creating the work.

Registration of a copyrighted work with the Copyright Office confers
additional benefits, including the ability to seek statutory damages.


> Arkain wrote:
>
> True. The current law does allow for that, but let me ask you something.
If
> you created a work, but had no desire to sell it or allow it to be
> copied(distributed), then it's not likely to ever leave your computer, so
> why would you copyright it?