Granting copyright generally means licensing it to someone else, for free: I grant you the right to put this image on t-shirts. It is not a transfer of copyright.
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"Copyright obtained" is an unnecessarily wordy way of saying the material is protected by copyright.
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The Copyright Office is said to have administrative control of copyright because it administers the law.
The copyright date is the date the material was "fixed." This can mean when it was written down, recorded, painted, etc.
This means that the person did not mean to break any copyright laws when they were using someone Else's idea.
The short answer is No. Simply giving credit for help in producing a work is not sufficient to establish a shared copyright. There is a difference between an acknowlegement and granting someone partial ownership.
If someone is no stranger to allegations of copyright infringement, it means he gets accused of copyright infringement a lot.
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Nobody owns the copyright of a single word. Perhaps you mean trademark.
If you mean the series of casual Nintendo DS games, the copyright belongs to Ubisoft.