2008/10/8 WJhonson@aol.com:
In a message dated 10/8/2008 3:37:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, geniice@gmail.com writes:
At various times US law has required one or both.>>
I do not believe this is true. I do not believe that "US law" has ever "required" copyright registration. You can. You don't have to. You have a source for your belief that the law used to require copyright registration? (Remembering that we are talking about registration, not "a notice within the work")
Sec. 3 And be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, in cases where any map, chart, book or books, hath or have been already printed and published, unless he shall first deposit, and in all other cases, unless he shall before publication deposit a printed copy of the title of such map. chart, book or books, in the clerk's office of the district court where the author or proprietor shall reside
copyright act of 1790.