Quote Originally Posted by Pyper View Post
The sealed envelope trick could only work if you could prove when the envelope was sealed. Otherwise you could mail yourself an empty envelope and put whatever you wanted in it at a later date.
Reading the info on Snopes, it just seems a whole lot easier to go ahead and simply pay the $35 filing fee at the US Copyright office and have it go on record, legitimately fair & square, instead of trying figure out ways to prove when an envelope was sealed, (and more importantly, that it hasn't been unsealed and resealed since then. Steam works wonders, you know)... ;-)