but I've never heard of them lying about the date on a postmark. Several years ago I heard of a woman who had done some drawings for a high school sports team. The coach never told anyone that she designed them, not him and he was getting the credit for creating these designs. He wasn't at all upset about it. She was. Her advice is when you have a design, make a copy of it and snail mail it to yourself, never opening the envelope. Have the envelope marked as to what design it is. If there is any question later on about who created it, there you have it, in a still sealed envelope with the postmark showing the date you mailed it to yourself. The government may lie to us about a lot of things (don't even get me started on Rozwell.) but I've never heard of them lying about the date on a postmark.
Laura Butler had said about a similiar situation and they had dated faxes to prove who's work it was. How are the faxes dated? With all the fax machines I've dealt with, when you set them up you program the date and time. This can be easily changed. Same way with saving files on a computer. I could easily manipulate something I did today and make it appear as if it was saved 5 years ago. I think the postmark is the most surefire way to prove dates.
If anyone has any other ideas, please share with us. Obviously we can't copyright EVERYTHING we do, it would just take all our time and money to do that.
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Chris King
Paper Works & Graphix
Indiana, PA
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I also include this URL at the bottom...
http://freeadvice.com/law/570us.htm
Hope this helps some.
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Pat Neve, Jr.
Sign Man, Inc.
4580 N. US 1
Melbourne, FL 32935
321-259-1703
signman@signmaninc.com
Capt. Sign
Letterville Constituent
constituent: "One of the individual entities contributing to a whole"
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Raven/2001
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower Sackville N.S.
deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca
[This message has been edited by Stephen Deveau (edited May 09, 2001).]
It's known as a "Poor Man's Copyright"
I've heard Yesses & Nos as to how well it works.
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"If it isn't fun, why do it?"
Signmike@aol.com
Mike Languein
Doctor of Letters
BS, MS, PhD
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You know what BS is, MS is More of the Same, and it's Piled Higher and Deeper here
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Louis A. Lazarus
Milt's Sign Service, Inc.
20 So. Linden Ave. #5B
650-588-0490
fontking1a@aol.com
What does that say to the students he's suppost to be coaching?
What exactly is involved with copywriting your work? Isn't it expensive? lenghtly process?
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Chris King
Paper Works & Graphix
Indiana, PA
Copyrighting is a snap. It's $30 to file the form and you dont need to involve an attorney at all.
Check out http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ for all the info as there is way more than I can post here. =)
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Mike Pipes
Digital Illusion Custom Graphics
Lake Havasu City, AZ
http://www.stickerpimp.com
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Mike Pipes
Digital Illusion Custom Graphics
Lake Havasu City, AZ
http://www.stickerpimp.com
