[JamesC70]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Every major website in the USA, and even many foreign sites, have Registered Agents. You can follow the link I gave... Amazon, EBay, CNN, Fox News, Craigslist, Internet Brands, vBulletin.com, vBulletin Solutions, AOL, Google, and Facebook are just some of the sites who have registered...

The Registered Agent also serves DMCA notices. Should a forum receive a takedown notice claiming CNN copyright, the forum owner can check the Registered Agent filing on Copyright.gov to verify that it is a legitimate takedown notice.

If your website generates unique content, registering an agent shows that you intend to protect your work. Should you ever file a DMCA takedown against another website, the other website doesn't comply, and you push it to court, then the judge would look more favorably toward the party that followed DMCA procedure.

That's the whole point of a Registered Agent -- all copyright issues regarding that site go through that agent, no matter if the issue is "CNN stole from you" or "you stole from CNN".