Unofficially (and for just the cost of postage) you can copyright anything by putting it in a envelope, addressing it to yourself, apply postage, and send it through the mail. The next day when you receive it, DO NOT OPEN IT! It will have a post mark on it PROVING you wrote it on or before the postmark. In many countries a creative work is protected by copyright from the moment it is first written down. In the United States, this is also true, but you will need to register your copyright before you can effectively enforce it. In fact, there are other valuable reasons to register it immediately after you first publish it. There are simple forms to file and moderate fees involved, so you should consider registration for any valuable works. Sending yourself a copy in the mail (unlike registration) does not notify the world of your ownership so that people can contact you for a distribution license or commission additional works. :-)
Bear in mind that it isn't necessary to take any action for a song to be protected. Copyright protection is automatic, as soon as work of sufficient originality is "fixed in a tangible medium, perceptible to human eye, machine reader or other device".
If you want the additional protection a formally registered copyright can provide, contact the copyright office in your country for the proper procedure and required fees.
In the US, copyright fees vary between $30 USD & $220 USD depending on the services required. However, since formal registration is not required, your work is automatically protected as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium.
As soon as they are written down, they are automatically protected by copyright. If formal registration is available in your country, you may do so through the copyright office, which is generally associated with the national library.
As soon as they are written down, they are automatically protected by copyright. If formal registration is available in your country, you may do so through the copyright office, generally associated with the national library.
You don't. Names, titles, slogans, logos, and common words/phrases are not eligible for copyright protection. In some cases, however, they can be registered as trademarks.
As soon as it is written down, it's automatically protected by copyright. If formal registration is available in your country, you may choose to do so in addition.
As soon as it is written down, it is automatically protected by copyright.
In the United States, it costs $35 to register a single poem with the U.S. Copyright Office. This fee allows you to protect your poem and claim ownership of the work.
It does not cost anything to receive copyright protection in most cases. For a watch, you would need to seek out a patent to protect your product, not copyright.
Protection is free and automatic.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright, only the original expression of those ideas, fixed in a tangible form, can be.
The current fee is 200P. Bear in mind, however, that registration is not required for protection.
A poem is considered a form of literary work and is protected under copyright law as a creative expression of ideas and emotions. The specific arrangement of words and unique structure of the poem are what is protected, rather than the ideas or themes themselves.
Business names cannot be protected by copyright, but you can register it as a trademark for $375 on paper, $275 electronically.
Depends on the person who wrote it.
It depends on the lawyer. Most copyright lawyers will charge around $300 to register a copyright, but the fee can also go up depending on what exactly you need the lawyer to do.
1915; it is in the public domain.
Copyright registration (online, fax, or snail mail) information & fee charts are available at the US Copyright Office homepage.
Names (including nicknames), titles, slogans, and common words/phrases do not qualify for copyright protection. In some cases, however, they can be registered as trademarks.