making/sharing files [or] please save my pc from being jumped on
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I don’t mind if you laugh at me, I’m a total dumbass when it comes to p.c. things,Poems I can do Tech, nah ah.
So if you can help I will be thankful-here’s my problem
I have about 50 powems on 2 blogs [chaotic soul so multiple pages] I want to copyright them so I want to create a file with all my powems which I can transfer to the copyright registration mob obviously with the fee.That way I can copyright a whole work for one price as opposed to one powem at a time at cost x 50. I’ve tried to down load to windows grrr GRRR is it poss to do with W.P.I’ve just been staring uncomprehendingly at this new media library thingy, it seems to be what I’m looking for with regards to making a file/folder/ thingy but can it be shared/transfered? to a third party? -
“transfer to the copyright registration mob obviously with the fee”
I’m afraid I have no idea what that means. Copyright is free; when you create a work, it is automatically copyright, by law. If someone is charging you to register your poems, that doesn’t mean they’re charging you for copyright; you already have that. They’re charging you for your fear.
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I understand that but if someone [perish the thought] made a song of one of my powems and it sold 50 billion records [bearing in mind some rubbish songs that have sold by the billions]I can’t prove that it was my song and registering does not prove it either but a judge will decide in favour of a copyright registered work unless there are mighty weighty reasons not to and it costs a nominal fee, about 40 nicker. Even if I could drag you to court to testify on my behalf that yes I wrote Shaggy mouse someone else could say that their much beloved dog wrote it 40 years ago before dying after contracting rabies from a postman’s bite. Anybody who has ever registered their work, and a few have, has paid a fee. I just got a funny little feeling that some of my nonsense is good. And Oasis are so desperate these days that they are re-hashing Cliff Richards, mind you I always relished the thought of biting Galagher’s nose off, which is what I would do if he nicked one of my powems.
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Does paying that fee prove you own the copyright? It proves only that you’ve paid someone a fee. There are numerous scams of this nature and few legitimate sites that pretend their protection is absolute. My advice is not to do this. Please do educate yourself further about copyright. You will save yourself a lot of money and worry.
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gentledove, can you give us a link to the service you use to register copyright?
I you want to have a valid copyright…all you need is somthing like http://MyFreeCopyright.com
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What are you all on, it’s a govt agency IPO http://www.gov.uk/copy.htm it’s an arm of the patent office it’s where all copyright are registered-I will check your link, cos if I can get something for free I will-but it looks as if it may be a here today and gawn tomorra outfit Did I imagine that Michael Jackson owns the copyrights of about 40 million quids worth of Beatles songs? and that Macca pays him to sing his own songs, well Northern songs is registered with IPO it’s a government office.I mean prove me I am wrong, please do, but I don’t think so. I know I already own the copyrights to my work, [no-one else would own up to producing such a lot of dribble anyhow] but we are talking about proving it in a civil action, registration does not prove anything but the judge will say if a person has troubled to register their work then the balance of probability is that it is their work and under the Berne agreement this is internationally recognised-none of this matters until someone starts making money out of it.
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O.k Bumblebeemeister your link looks legit enough I will make further investigations as to what clout they might have in a civil action but now I’m face with exactly the same problem of making a file of all my work and uploading it to them for them to register. :)
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See I’ve just been reading this very minute Myfreecopyright does not have any legal weight WHAT-SO-EVER it’s nothing in a disputed ownership case [in the U.S. and so presumably everywhere else] you will not get a civil hearing unless your work is registered with the U.S. government patent office-third parties such MFCR are simply not recognised-It’s exactly the same as you posting your work with registered mail signed and dated it has the same authority, but someone will come along and say no, no but I wrote it a year earlier. If they have registered it with IPO [U.K.] their registration will be recognised over yours- It’s not a case of proof but a case of what a civil court will recognise as a balance of probability. The difficulty here will be your getting a hearing in the first place and unless your work is government registered, i.e at the Patent office you won’t. Myfreecopyright may well deter somebody [though not someone who knows the legal situation-a “professional” and therefore somebody who will have more clout to begin with] I could put my own notice up on my blog Myfree’owsyerfather merely duplicates what is already there on my blog entry I can already show proof that I posted Shaggy mouse on the 17th of December 20008, but I cannot prove that I did not steal it from someone who claims they wrote it 91 years ago. Nothing proves anything that’s the problem so the civil court sets up it’s own criteria for proof which is registration and that with the Government Patent office and they allow for no other parties. BUT hey THANK-YOU and RAINCOASTER for your response.
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