Copyright, is this one enough?

[Maria Retz]

I wonder if you can prove your copyright if you send what you have made to yourself in an email and don't open it, then the date stands and you cannot change it.
Or if when you mail it to yoursef and then hide it safely.

Is this enough, or do you have to get it registeret?

I have sent it to myself as emails and I hope this should be enough.

The reason why I am not so happy about registering it is that I once paid something by using the internet, I never got what I byed, but the person got the money, lots of money actually. So I am a little nervous about this way of paying.

I will be pleased to recieve an answer at my email:

[e-mail]

But also here so others can read it.

[bretth]

The mail-yourself-copyright method is not really suggested, nor does it provide you any legal copyright protection if your material is subject to infringement.

Currently, registered copyright payments are made by check. In 2005, the US Copyright Office will start accepting registration submissions and payments online.

Here is a good article about the legal protection of Copyrights:

TO REGISTER, OR NOT TO REGISTER, YOUR COPYRIGHT
www.farrisliterary.com/articles.htm#Register%20Copyright