Typically, a product intended for sale would benefit more from trademark or patent protection, rather than copyright. In the US, registering a trademark costs $375, and the basic patent filing costs $330, although securing a patent involves many additional costs.
as much as the ink costs to print the words "copyright © year author"
In the US copyright fees range from $30 USD to $220 USD.
Works of sufficient originality are automatically protected by copyright as soon as they are fixed in a tangible medium. If formal registration is available in your country, fees will vary.
Protection is free and automatic.
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.
why are companies concerned about how much a product cost to make
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.
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.
In order to copyright a logo product, an individual must submit an application to the United States Copyright Office. This organization will judge the uniqueness of the desired logo and offer permission for copyright.
Copyright registration (online, fax, or snail mail) information & fee charts are available at the US Copyright Office homepage.
Roentgenium is not a commercial product.
You would be more likely to want to trademark it. See below for current US trademark fees.
No it would not be a copyright infringement. Copyright does not protect names, titles, common words/phrases, facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation. However product names can be, and usually rare, registered as trademarks.