Thank you for your thoughts and assurances!

Thank you for your thoughts and assurances!

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

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.

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!