CompuServe Messages

Yes there is a fee in copyright registration. But NO WHERE does it say you have to register anything to copyright a program. TO copyright something you must place a copyright notice in the work and then distribute the work (sell it or whatever). That is ALL you have to do. Registering the copyright just provides proof of when the copyright began (important if you have a court battle over the work). I consider the DL's to be published, which means CIS can claim an anthology copyright. I never said CIS's attorney was freelancing. All I said was that the author requested CIS to represent him and they did. (Any financial arrangements are the author's and CIS's business not ours.) I don't see CIS picking on a little guy, I see them pointing out to a person that he was breaking the law. In my mind that is "picking" on someone.