I never had a hope in the settlement, since — silly me! — I followed Australian copyright law which says the moment a work exists it’s automatically protected with no need to be registered, so why would I have bothered with a foreign country’s copyright office? Especially when writing advice sites also said don’t worry about it unless and until you need to launch legal action against infringement…because who knew they’d decide on a retrospective cut-off date for registration, right? A surprising number still had this advice up as this shitshow was going down.