According to the Berne Convention:
every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression, such as books, pamphlets and other writings; lectures, addresses, sermons and other works of the same nature; dramatic or dramatico-musical works; choreographic works and entertainments in dumb show; musical compositions with or without words; cinematographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to cinematography; works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving and lithography; photographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to Photography; works of applied art; illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science.
The written work is automatically protected by copyright.
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Forms for copyright registration are available at the link below. Bear in mind registration is not required for protection.
Yes. Copyright infringement of any form is a violation of federal law.
It just means general copyright, as a concept, as opposed to a specific right on a specific material. A generic copyright letter is basically a form letter to alter as needed.
Instructions on filling out form SR are at the link below.
It would be very difficult to do so. You can certainly copyright any literature or videos associated with a style or form, but preventing someone from doing it would be impossible.
Ideas cannot be protected by copyright, only the original expression of those ideas, fixed in a tangible form, can be.
No, your copyright is automatically applied once the work is created in a tangible form, such as written, recorded, etc.
In the US, the Copyright Office only accepts forms through the mail or via their online registration system, eCo.
Downloading movies is a form of copyright infringement.
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