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Cathy Clamp:

--- Quote from: Oscar Diggs ---Also when legal documents such as warrants are sent in certified mail, the courts accept the receipt as proof that the documents were received on the given day.
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Correct---when it is COUPLED with a Certificate of Mailing executed by an officer of the court or their staff. It's the certificate that states the contents. The Return Receipt Requested card certifies the date. (semantics, semantics...  ;D Too many years as a paralegal in litigation and intellectual property.)

I also agree that mailing using tape is an absolute violation of postal regulations. But hey, if a person is plagiarizing, what's a little issue like mailing laws?  ::) It's seldom enforced, and I've no doubt that the court would find it out and find in favor of the plaintiff/petitioner, but it's been done. That's all I'm saying. And the Copyright Office makes it VERY clear on their site that mailing is not a substitute for registration. It doesn't have the same value in court.

We're not disagreeing. Just clarifying both sides for the peeps, after all. :)

Kathleen Dante:

--- Quote from: The Angel Yeratel on June 05, 2008, 02:00:06 PM ---Attribution's good enough for a snippet of lyrics.

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Actually, it's not. Even one line of lyrics might be larger than fair use allows (in proportion to the whole song). A friend of mine wanted to do precisely that, use one line from a song in her book, a line that was relevant to the story, character and situation. She had to change it because it would have required asking for permission from the song's copyright owner and she didn't want to go through the hassle (neither did the publisher's legal dept, I think).

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