Theft of Intellectual Property?

[deirdreb007]

What is the name of your state? Washington DC

If someone sells a course, that they created. (The course includes a notebook with 200 pages of text and a disk with sample forms.) And another person buys the course, makes xerox copies of it and copies the files onto another disk and sells it to someone else thru the mail; has any crimes been committed? i.e. theft of intellectual property, copyright violation, mail fraud...?

 

[HomeGuru]

What is the name of your state? Washington DC

If someone sells a course, that they created. (The course includes a notebook with 200 pages of text and a disk with sample forms.) And another person buys the course, makes xerox copies of it and copies the files onto another disk and sells it to someone else thru the mail; has any crimes been committed? i.e. theft of intellectual property, copyright violation, mail fraud...?

**A: yes.

 

[deirdreb007]

Do you still have recourse if the course was not regsitered with the copyright office? Why is it mail fraud?

 

[HomeGuru]

Do you still have recourse if the course was not regsitered with the copyright office? Why is it mail fraud?

**A: No, I don't have recourse at all and never did.

 

[deirdreb007]

Thank you for your time.

 

[HomeGuru]

Who's on first? Third base.

 

[divgradcurl]

"Do you still have recourse if the course was not regsitered with the copyright office?"

Yes, but you have to register the work with the copyright office before you can sue the other person for copyright infringement.