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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Even *IF* you had filed your copyrights with the Library of Congress, laboriously combed through the entire Guba catalogue, carefully recording and matching stolen content......you'd still be left with the financial burden of hiring lawyers, flying back and forth to court dates, spending an enormous amount of lost production time attending court, etc.
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exactly.... it is ironic that copyright laws are meant to protect one's property, but the actual process of enforcing those rights can be cost prohibited where you can't enforce your rights. (now if you were Hollywood, they send out the FBI to handle copyright infringement issues.)
If you did have images copyrighted, you can be awarded damages from a minimum of $2,500 per image/infraction up to $150,000 (it's up to the judge to decide how blatant the actions were).
Copyright law does give you recourse, but like any lawsuit, it takes bucks to litigate for bucks.. but if you can prove your case (ie. filed copyrights) and have the bankroll, you could win big in damages.. but then comes the collecting of the judgement, where a company could just file BK and you "won" with a court judgement, but "lost" because you can't collect.
Fight the injustice!