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That is incorrect. Registration is irrelevent in this situation - it is not a condition of copyright protection, nor does it even exist in many countries.
Copyright law secures for the copyright holder five exclusive rights. These are the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, the right to prepare derivative works based upon the work, the right to distribute copies of the work to the public, the right to perform the copyrighted work publicly, and the right to display the copyrighted work publicly.
Copyright law also allows the copyright holder to transfer some or all of those rights to third parties, on either an exclusive or nonexclusive basis. Such a transfer is usually either an assignment or a license.
Without such an assignment or license, you do not have permission to copy, modify, distribute, perform or display the copyrighted work. Such actions are prohibited by law.
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