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''But this doesn't matter so much now that the countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention on copyright automatically assign copyright on created works. Before that, you did need to explicitly declare your copyright...?''
The way that copyright laws were originally written, you were not breaking any law by merely ''possessing'' copyrighted items without the copyright holder's permission, unless and until you re-distributed (or publicly displayed etc) the item (or a copy of the item).
It appears that recent law changes in America have changed this status quo (for Americans, at least).
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+See also: IntellectualProperty, [Patent], SoftwarePatent
