Re: registering a composition

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On 23/05/2020 20:21, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> I’m not saying the world is a nice place (it isn’t); you should, at
> the very least, secure*your*  copyright by having a solid proof of
> anteriority, as we discussed.  What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t
> overestimate the possible threat to your work if you were to publish
> it freely, nor the amount and quality of “protection” you’ll get from
> any RMO out there.

for the sake of a few pennies, there's an easy way to prove the date. 
Used, I believe, by some law firm in America for its legal documents, 
and easy enough to do here in England too.

Put all of your stuff on a CD. Now run a program that generates an MD5 
checksum or whatever it is, and save both the command and output to a 
text file. (I'd throw in a listing of the CD too.) Print this, as an 
advert, in a legal newspaper such as - in London - Lloyds Gazette.

That CD can now be copied freely, the MD5 sum won't change. And the 
advert proves that it was in existence on the date of the newspaper. You 
don't even need to save a copy of the newspaper - the fact that it is a 
newspaper of legal announcements means that there will be loads of 
copies kept, probably a lot of them by courts themselves!

Cheers,
Wol