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Originally Posted by The Ghost
If YOU don't own it, take it down and save yourself the headache.
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Bingo. The copyright doesn't have to be registered. What registration does is it means you are liable for automatic damages of $750 per hit. Without registration, you owe them actual damages. Either way, if it's not yours, take it down and get your own stuff. Photographers, artists, writers, etc. need to eat too and by illegally taking their work you are stealing from them. Pay them for their work, so they can eat and thus continue to make more stuff.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#504
If for some reason you needed to know who registered a copyright, or if they registered, you would search the copyright office at copyright.gov. Again, though, whether it's registered or not only affects how MUCH they sue you for. Theft is theft either way.