Quote Originally Posted by Mr. I-MAN
Are your photos copyrighted? If not I have violin sheet music for you.
Because of the laws that the copyright cartel (aka music, movie and book publishers) have been able to buy, nowadays ANYTHING and EVERYTHING you create is automatically covered by copyright, you don't need to do anything to make it so and are due actual damages for any violation of your copyright. If you do officially register the copyright, it means that you are now due quadruple damages plus the copyright violator is *probably* subject to the insane fines and possible jail time that you hear about for copying DVDs and CDs, something like $10,000 per copy.

I say *probably* because, chances are, the law is written to protect corporate citizens but not real citizens.