Copyright protection website to store your work?

[ross928]

I've been searching Google for the past hour looking for a website (that I thought I saw in Computer Arts or Digital Creative Arts) that allows you to upload your digital work for copyright protection purposes. Kinda like a depository for work that you have created for personal and professional projects. I know about CreativeCommons, but I don't think that was the site.

For some reason, the term; "I made it first" or "I created it first" comes to mind...

Any of you know or have any inkling as to what I'm talking about? Is there such a thing? Does mailing yourself work really protect intellectual property?

[JayCharles]

I don't know about other countries, but here in the US a copyright is only recognized by the courts if it has been filed with the US copyright office. The thing about mailing something to yourself is a myth.

If you read the copyright statutes, you'll find that copyright actually exisits at the time the work was created, but that won't help in court, and that's really what matters... right?

[tonytryout]

do you not mean CC?

[JayCharles]

Creative commons has to do with licensing works for use, and the terms by which the works may be used. Copyright is a matter of ownership.