Thanks to links from a few kind websites, and also possibly a book somewhere, I get a steady stream of messages about the copyright for collage web pages. I never got one like this before:
"what's the poor man's copyright, and whata are 3 things that can be forced to do if successfully sued for copyright infringement? whata are two examples of situations where using someone else's work is protected by copyright as "fair use"?"
Hmm, I sense ... a term paper in someone's near future? For obvious reasons I'm not going to answer this message. One of the most obvious reasons being, all of her questions are answered on my site. There's even a link at the top of the first page right to the info on poor man's copyright.
I supposed I ought to be annoyed that some girl wants me to do her homework and can't even say "please," but in fact it's highly amusing. For years I've admired the rec.arts.books.tolkien group "Tolkien Sarcasm Pages" for their creative approach to rewarding dedicated scholarship. I ought to do something like that for my copyright pages. But ... that would require effort. (The Tolkien folks' misdirection was so good, it even fooled the London Sunday Times!)
See, I told you that you could be a librarian. that's the kind of question we get every day. I've been asked "please write my report on women and the civil war" in 100 different ways.