According to a current article in Digital Music News:
“A ‘poor man’s copyright’ is when you try to establish a form of copyright protection for your music without officially registering it with the copyright office.
The idea behind it is to create a dated record of the music’s existence and authorship, using a low-cost and informal method. Usually, this involves mailing a CD of your music to yourself so it’s stamped and dated by the USPS, and then you keep the package sealed and stored away just in case.
To be clear, this is not a legally recognized alternative to official copyright registration.
The U.S. Copyright Office does say ‘…your work is protected by copyright from the moment it is fixed…’. However, registering an actual copyright gives you more benefits and overall more reliable protection.”
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