[linux-audio-user] U.S. Copyright: was FOLKS, PAY......

[Rob]

On Tue December 20 2005 13:12, R Parker wrote:
> I want to publish with a free service on the internet
> that establishes an equivalent to the poor man's
> registration. Is this happening yet?

I don't know how effective a tool it would be in court, but 
speaking for myself, web.archive.org has a record of my music 
page (with a list of "songs", i.e., incomplete snippets of 
songs, that I'd published, i.e., made available for download) 
going back to 2001.  

The page actually went up in 1996, and existed as a handful of 
mp3's and MIDI files prior to that, but apparently archive.org 
didn't find my site till 2001.  I think you can force 
web.archive.org to fetch a page (and then keep track of changes) 
by searching for it, though.

Of course, web.archive.org doesn't archive the MIDI or mp3 files 
as far as I know, but at least it's a record that you published 
them.  

Rob