Thank you for your thoughts and assurances!

We enjoyed reading your article.  It's only a pity we didn't know of its posting at the time, as we'd have been happy to comment sooner.

The point about the requirement of additional evidence such as affidavits regarding how services such as our works is entirely logical, and – in duly noted's case – it has never been our expectation to only provide a certificate upon a client's regsitration of their work.  We have not believed that, and only that, would be acceptable for a court.  In the event a client's work is infringed, our policy is at the very least to provide them their work plus a letter from the company, signed by one of its directors, verifying the date stamp of the registration, and outlining our processes and our technologies that enable us to do so.  We are also willing to sign affidavits about such at the client's request.  While this latter aspect would require additional charges (the notary's services, admin etc.) any such charges would not be prohibitive against its value as admissible evidence in court.

Of course, we can't make guarantees as to just what evidence a court may decide to accept or refuse, as that is simply out of our hands.

Julian & John Boote
Duly noted® Limited

I believe that Lars accidentally emailed me his reply. I’m going to forward you the relevant portions.

This is a very interesting service, I’m going to see about emailing you in a few days to see about covering it here.

From what I’ve seen though, it looks great and very easy to use.

Thank you for posting!

There does need to be a digital notary service. So we built one.

http://www.stayboystay.com
Free on demand archival service.

The standard output is a URL that reveals within it the original URL so no more opaque URLs. The date of the capture is also within the new URL.

In addition the new archive URL has a hash built into it. This provides a guarantee that the cached version has not been changed long after it was stored. Due do the cryptographic nature of the public domain hash it is computationally infeasible to change the content and then come up with the same hash. This means the content can be verified and any tampering by me, you or anyone can be detected by any 3rd party.

This service is free and simple to use. You can use it anonymously or you can sign up for a free account and get some additional administration functions.

I hope this service will solve at least some of the challenges you face.

Lars Bell

There does need to be a digital notary service. So we built one.

http://www.stayboystay.com
Free on demand archival service.

The standard output is a URL that reveals within it the original URL so no more opaque URLs. The date of the capture is also within the new URL.

In addition the new archive URL has a hash built into it. This provides a guarantee that the cached version has not been changed long after it was stored. Due do the cryptographic nature of the public domain hash it is computationally infeasible to change the content and then come up with the same hash. This means the content can be verified and any tampering by me, you or anyone can be detected by any 3rd party.

This service is free and simple to use. You can use it anonymously or you can sign up for a free account and get some additional administration functions.

I hope this service will solve at least some of the challenges you face.

Lars Bell