Thank you for the information. I don't think we have the same system in Ireland, but it would make sense to register the copyright in the US, certainly the images, anyway. I did google the name and looked on this site too and found no other decks of the same name out there, but that doesn't mean that someone else(just like me) isn't working on something of the same name! I guess I will just need to work faster to get it into print!
To give you a bit of background to the deck, I started the first card nearly 30 years ago, and had a couple of them published in a magazine. As it was a personal project which didn't pay the bills it kept getting shelved until I had more free time. Then, one day, I decided to indulge in an online Tarot project and chose to paint a mandala for the 'task'. This task was to relate directly to the card drawn during the reading. My card was the Ace of Wands. So I went to work, or rather 'play' with the image, posted it online, and since then it has gone all round the world and I have received many requests for permission to use the image. It amazes me how a painting, done for recreation has made me more money and fame than much of my 'serious' work. But isn't that just the magic of Tarot for you!
My 'work in progress' deck is Eternal Cycles Tarot and you can see some of the images on
http://www.Eternalcyclestarot.wordpress.com. The blog is quite bare as it has only just been put up while I work on the website.
Thanks again for the advice. It's good to have the feedback