Well that is the problem, if you don't register your copyrights before the infringement occurs then you are not entiltled to lawyer fees, just damages.
If registration is made within 3 months after publication of the work or prior to an infringement of the work, statutory damages and attorney's fees 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.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
All of which goes to say - the logistics alone of mounting a legal attack would be next-to futile.
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.
Who in their right mind would even briefly consider that as an option?
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