Copyright protection is free and automatic, as soon as the work is fixed in a tangible medium.
Using copyright-free materials is much cheaper and easier than negotiating for a license with the copyright holder of a protected work.
In most countries copyright is free, instantaneous and automatic.
well it takes alot of money to copyright. it also depends on where you copyright what ever it is you are copyrighting.
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.
Because registration is not required for protection, there is no way to tell how much software has been protected by copyright. On the other hand, since protection is automatic, you can also say that all software is protected by copyright.
Under current US copyright law the maximum "standard" fine for "willful and deliberate" copyright infringement can be as high as $150,000.00 USD.
In the US formal registration of copyright requires a one time fee. There are no recurring charges
If the photo is altered for comedic effect, it may be used under the copyright exceptions for satire. However, no alteration can remove the copyright from a photo.
Much of copyright law consists of exemptions that allow schools certain limited unlicensed uses of protected materials. Beyond that, schools interact with copyright in much the same way any other institution or business would.
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.
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.