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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the very greatest respect, Matt, you are mistaken. Copyright exists the instant that a creative work is created. It does not require a copyright notice, and certainly doesn't need to be "registered" anywhere. (It does, of course, need to be sufficiently "creative" in order to be subject to copyright.)
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That is, of course, true. I apologize for phrasing it the way I did. While the law makes a big difference between registered works and non-registered works in how easy it is to actually protect your copyright in a court of law and what kind of protections the author can claim, you're basically right. For the purposes of this discussion, though, i.e. the susceptibility of MR to copyright infringement lawsuits, it is a very relevant point: publishers usually register the copyright for their books (because it constitutes prima facie evidence in a court of law and entitles them to statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation) whereas they do not register copyright for their ebook's CSS. So, while I may have overly simplified my point, I'd argue it's still valid: for the CSS to be a problem, you'd either expect it to be a computer program (that the publisher would have registered) or an integral creative part of the whole (which it is clearly not, since it is lacking in the pbook version).
That you decided to ignore the salient points of my reply again and nitpick on something so small, however, somehow does not surprise me in the least
Matt