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Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
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http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
the ? notice isn't even legally required anymore . . (since 1989 i think) but it's still used, mainly bc of idiots who think they can steal anything without one.