Your actually right hink. .
I have googled it before. I just like to hear from someone who had done it themselves, because sometimes you get the, "what they don't tell ya is" or "in my experience, watch out for this".
On the mail thing though, I know the answer to that completely.
Their is no such thing as mail yourself copyright process that is considered legal. When I first started in comedy in the early 90's, it was one of the first rumors we heard.
The case that brought that rumor crumbling to an end was actually the Tim Allen cased in Michigan. Tim Allen of course is the comedian from Tool Time and the Santa Clause.
He STOLE his power tool/ arghh arghh arghh comedy from a fellow comedian in the Michigan area. When taken to court, the comic brought in the "copyright" protected material in his envelopes. It was to NO avail, as Tim was found to be the first with a PAID recorded performance, and basically becasue the other guy couldn't prove his case it was thrown out and Tim Allen became a star.
I can't tell you how many legal websites and music websites and industry professionals will tell you NO NO NO to the mail yourself copyright. All you are doing is practicing mailing large envelopes to yourself . . .no more.
At anyrate. . . .I will look back into the LOC, in the end, I just wanted to know if there were any other unique stories or quicker, streamlined ways of going about it.
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