Registration is not required for protection; as soon as a work of sufficient creativity is fixed in a tangible medium, it is automatically protected. Formal registration is available in some countries (in the US, the fee would be $35).
Copyright protection extends to the end of the calendar year 70 years past the death of the author.
Copyright protection generally extends to the end of the calendar year, 70 years past the death of the author.
In the US copyright protection generally lasts until the end of the calendar year 70 years past the death of the author.
In most cases, for work published after 1923, copyright will expire at the end of the calendar year 70 years after the death of the original author.
Generally copyright protection extends until the end of the calendar year 70 years past the death of the photographer
Newspaper publish quotes all the time. Legally you do not have to copyright the quotes, but in order to stop others from using you calendar Idea, you should copy both the idea and the title. However, a person may come up with a similar idea that is not exactly the same under a different name and produce it.
Under current US law copyright protection extends through the life of the author and to the end of the calendar year 70 years past the authors death.
Much of Rachmaninoff's work was composed prior to 1923 & should have already entered the public domain. The balance of his work which still falls under copyright protection will be copyright free after December 31st 2013 (the end of the calendar year 70 years post mortem)
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.
The copyright of a work lasts the life of the author plus 50 years from the end of the calendar year of death. If there is more than one author, the above rule applies to the last author to die.