With all the chatter about tube sites and my postings about how content owners need to file for copyrights so they have legal grounds for DMCA takedown requests and potential lawsuits for copyright infringements, it is clear that so many have not filed for copyrights on their content.
After you file the initial copyright application, you then can file it monthly with new content that you have created. This simple process will give you the legal grounds to then sue for copyright infringement.
If you don't file for copyrights for your work, you make it alot harder on yourself in proving you are the copyright/content owner for a DMCA request, and without copyright filing, you have a really hard time at trying to use the legal path of copyright infringements to go after websites and hosting providers.
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I contacted an attorney to ask him if he could provide some general guidance on how to file a copyright, so that content owners could be more informed. He said he would do it, but was reluctant because he didn't wanted to be flamed for trolling.
What i want to do is have this poll document how many content producers have not filed for copyright protection and would want to learn how.
I have asked the attorney if he would be interested in creating the guidelines and also maybe some package deal that allows him to review your application to make sure it was correct at some affordable price.
He said he would be interested if there was interest from the community.
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For those that think that I am trolling/shilling for attorneys
I am trying to provide actual information that can help content producers have a leg to stand on. I receive no compensation for my time from this.
It costs money for legal action, but it is money well spent if it can prevent your content from further being stolen.
I respect this attorney enough to put myself out there to ask for him to give some help to this situation and to create a copyright package, where he can specifically help the content provider ensure their filing is correct. You can certainly do this on your own and go to
http://www.copyright.gov/ and file it yourself, but I think it makes better sense to have an experienced attorney help you do it right the first time, and then you keep up with it on your own.
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This thread will evolve to having some general guideline steps to filing copyright along with a posting later by the attorney of what he can offer to GFY to help them with this very important legal action.
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For those that want to do this on their own:
http://www.copyright.gov/eco/
checkout their howto... if it looks confusing or unclear, then you'll appreciate and understand why having an experieced attorney guide you through the process so important.
Fight the stealing!