Hey Brad, just wanted to thank you for your awesome "10 myths of copyright" thing. I've attended a few hosted seminars in the arena of copyrighting music and stuff, it's funny to see so many of the myths faithfully reproduced and spouted as truth. my favorite one (which i don't think you mentioned) is "mailing yourself a copy and leaving it unopened establishes legal copyright" which has no precedent in the US. I'm gunna bookmark your pages and browse through them when Skeptico et al get too depressing for me. :-)

So as a composer it was nice to hear again that my work is copyrighted the second i write it, and no one can take it away from me (unless i give it away). Thanks!

PS sorry for the off topic comment... I don't want to get into the wielding of the sword of Odin that the current administration thinks they can get away with (and do. ) also, did you read about HR 847? it's good to see the boys and girls on capitol hill have our best interests at heart all the time.

I see you're in california. I believe Dianne voted "aye" on HR 847. I know boxer did. so did pelosi. /sigh. (three representatives from california - all democrats - voted no, though)