Copyright gives the owner the exclusive right to copy, alter, distribute, or perform/display a work, or authorize others to do so. Although laws allow for action to be taken against infringers in court, most copyright holders address problems directly and attempt to make an agreement first.
Copyright protection is free and automatic, as soon as the work is fixed in a tangible medium.
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.
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.
The current fee is 200P. Bear in mind, however, that registration is not required for protection.
Unless your use falls under one of the exceptions to copyright protection (such as "fair use") the safe answer is... none.
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.
You don't have to "do" anything to claim copyright. 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 decide that you want or need 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 range from $30 USD to $220 USD depending on the services required and how quickly you need them.
Protection is free and automatic as soon as a work of sufficient originality is fixed in a tangible medium.
Protection is free and automatic; neither registration nor notification is required, and in fact Australia has no national copyright registration. Further details are available at the site linked below.
Do you mean "violating a copyright"?A copyright is the right of the owner of a work to reproduce and publish (copy) that work. It is a legal claim to ownership. It asks for the law's protection of the work against theft, piracy, and plagiarism. It may be the author (originator) of the work or it may be the publisher who claims copyright protection.Every book that is published has a copyright notice, often indicated by a little c in a circle. Other creative works--films, musical compositions, software, and other kinds of "intellectual property"--have a statement of copyright on them somewhere if the owner wants to protect them.A copyright notice is kind of like a fence around your property. The fence may not do much to actually keep people out. But it does tell them where the boundaries are, and it tells them that the property owner (you) want to keep trespassers out. They can't climb your fence and walk on your land without knowing that they are trespassing.If someone takes possession of (steals) work that is owned by someone else and tries to reproduce it or sell it, that is a violation of copyright. That is illegal.You should tell someone important...
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.