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Originally Posted by warmowski
It explains the various rights that are protected and how copyright law works. There are several surprising parts in it. For example, copyright protection under the law doesn't begin with the filling out of a paper form or other bureacratic instrument; the law says it exists the moment a completed work is put into a fixed form. From that very second.
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I remember when I was making my first homebrew album in high school and I found that out. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to write 'copyright 1999' on it and have it actually mean something legitimate. What advantages are there in actually filling out the forms and paying the Library of Congress fee and all that so as to have an official record of the date of creation? Thinking practically, there is pretty much no way anybody's ever going to infringe on the copyright of my weird and unpleasant music. On the other hand, I like the idea of some advanced civilization someday discovering the ruins of the Library of Congress and listening to the song I wrote about a booger.