RMM wrote:
Do NOT use the copyright symbol © unless you have registered the copyright, which involves a fee. However, you can say "Coypright 2011" without the symbol. Even if you don't, you are the copyright owner. If someone violates your copyright, the onus is on you to prove it, unless you have registered it. In that case, it's "No contest."
Am I understanding it would be "illegal" to use the symbol unless you register? Not that because everybody does it makes it right, but I don't know of anyone who has done the registration. They just use the symbol. I assumed they were interchangeable. Way more complicated than I thought this would be!