Yes, registration does makes getting damages easier. However, that's not the point, the point is that the poster who I originally replied to thinks copyright i

Yes, registration does makes getting damages easier. However, that's not the point, the point is that the poster who I originally replied to thinks copyright is copyright registration. Copyright is granted upon creation in the US. Registration is something you can do with a copyrighted work to make damages easier to gain. While the state grants a car title and a car registration, they're different things. Same with copyright. Copyright before the modern era required eventual registration to be valid, and I believe that's where much of current misunderstanding on the topic comes from: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm