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ANSWER:
Registration is recommended for several reasons:
Registration establishes a public record of your copyright claim.- Registration is necessary before you can initiate a lawsuit in U.S.
courts for infringement.
- If registration occurs within five years of publication, the registration
will establish prima facie evidence in a court of law of the validity
of the copyright and of the facts stated in the Certificate of Registration.
- If registration is made within 3 months after publication of a work
or prior to an infringement of the work, attorneys' fees, unlimited
actual damages or statutory damages and the infringer's profits, will
be available to the copyright owner in court actions. Otherwise, only
an award of actual damages and profits is available to the copyright
owner, which generally are much less than statutory damages.
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