Email yourself a copy or document of your work, which you want to copyright. Do this before posting it online or anywhere else! You will then see a timestamp in the corner of your email. This is what helps protect your work, only if it hasn’t shown up anywhere other than in the email you sent to yourself. The timestamp proves that you did or wrote that work, because it is the earliest known date and occurrence. Like guessing a result, knowing it will be correct, but you don’t want to say anything publicly because you’re afraid that if you’re wrong, you won’t like what other people say about you, and your prediction came true. How would someone know if they predicted that before the event or saw the event unfold? This is the basic operation of an Emailer’s Copyright, to prove that you did the work before anyone else!

There’s nothing worse than having to spend around $25 to register your own work, especially if you’re a regular content creator or provider, who has to worry about registering every single work when you don’t have the time or money to even get it out! this! But now it’s different, now you’re doing this for free, without having to use “poor man’s copyright”! A poor man’s copyright, for those of you who don’t know, is when you put your written document or materials in a mailing envelope, then mail it to yourself. First off, it’s pretty easy to fake this process, as you could time stamp your envelope and then put whatever you want on it, even if it’s something different that wasn’t originally intended for that mailing envelope!

An email sender’s copyright could very well be upheld in court, if you have the emails handy or have printed them out. You would have to alert the judge in advance that you are bringing an electronic or digital device, telling them that the devices are the ones that contain proof of copyright infringement. If you don’t alert the judge, there may be concerns about your device entering the courtroom, especially past the security check, and if the judge thinks you’re trying to game it while you’re in court. Save emails you send to yourself, preferably in a folder called “Copyright” as these will always be available, and you should also print your emails after sending them to yourself!