Don't know why you're being downvoted, dude. Your comment (and your clarifying comments above/below) are accurate.
Copyright is automatic, but the right to actually litigate a copyright is dependent on manually registering a work. If you register prior to infringement, you are eligible for very generous "statutory damages", which are roughly $100k per act of infringement. If you register after the infringement, you are only eligible for the actual damages (i.e., lost sales or the defendant's ill-gotten earnings from the infringing uses) that you prove in court.
Copyright is automatic, but the right to actually litigate a copyright is dependent on manually registering a work. If you register prior to infringement, you are eligible for very generous "statutory damages", which are roughly $100k per act of infringement. If you register after the infringement, you are only eligible for the actual damages (i.e., lost sales or the defendant's ill-gotten earnings from the infringing uses) that you prove in court.