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.
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.
The current fee is 200P. Bear in mind, however, that registration is not required for protection.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright, only the original expression of those ideas, fixed in a tangible form, can be.
Business names cannot be protected by copyright, but you can register it as a trademark for $375 on paper, $275 electronically.
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.
Copyright registration (online, fax, or snail mail) information & fee charts are available at the US Copyright Office homepage.
Copyright is free, instantaneous and automatic for your creative works of authorship, at least in the USA and over 160 countries in the Berne Union. You may optionally register your ownership in the US Copyright Office for $35.
Not necessarily, but if you are using a nickname or pseudonym for publishing, it would be worthwhile to note that in the copyright registration.
Protection is free and automatic as soon as a work of sufficient originality is fixed in a tangible medium.
There is no preset fee structure. You would have to locate the copyright holder first. Then you would need to negotiate a license to use the material.
Copyright fees in the US range from $30 USD to $220 USD.