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Originally Posted by CYF
You can definitely sue someone that violates your copyright, or send them a DMCA notice, and it's not just "pissing in the wind". Either way will get them to stop infringing your copyright. You can do this because the photographer owns the copyright to the photo the minute it's taken.
If you register your copyright, you can sue for statutory damages up to $150,000.
THAT is the benefit that registering provides.
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You can sue for any reason, that doesn't mean you will win or get money.
For DMCA to be valid you need to have registered your copyright just like the infringing person needs to be a registered agent to be protected under DCMA. To truly be protected, you need to register on both ends.
Yes, we know if you take a picture, the picture has a copyright on it. But that doesn't grant your exclusive rights/ownership to everything in the picture, just the actual work, the actual photo, the digital or printed item, as a whole work.
Aye, you can sue for that amount, but it's awarded based on the total violations of your content vs non violations of your content - and not anything else or other peoples violations. So if I have 1 picture that is yours out of a million that aren't yours, the awarded amount will be micro as the earnings from it would be equal to its use.