You hold the copyright to anything that you create. Even your unpublished manuscript is protected. Before you could bring any kind of lawsuit you would have to formally register the copyright.
Publication is not necessary for a work to be protected by copyrighted. Unpublished works can be submitted for copyright registration and published at a later date.
Yes, Edwin Landseer's works are copyrighted. He assigned the rights to his works to others prior to his death, and these people and their heirs have maintained the copyrights on his works.
Unless specifically from public domain works, anything and everything on YouTube is copyrighted.
Yes, album covers are typically copyrighted as they are considered original works of art.
Three examples of a Copyright are Literacy works, Musical works, & Dramatic works.Three examples of a NON-Copyright are Titles&Names, Ideas, & Fashion.
Use Form VA for copyright registration of published or unpublished works of the visual arts.
Yes, under US copyright law, an unpublished image is copyrighted for 120 years, unless you know who the author was, in which case it is copyrighted for 70 years after that person's death. So, for example, an unpublished image created in 1890 by a person who died in 1943 would still be copyrighted. On the other hand, if the image was published, then different rules apply, and if it was authored by a foreign citizen in a foreign country, different rules may apply. An image published 120 years ago by a US citizen in the USA, even with a proper copyright notice and renewal or registration would have expired. As a rule of thumb, anything published prior to 1923 in the USA is public domain. Again, anything UNPUBLISHED could still be copyrighted for well over 120 years.
The word? No. The band and the candy have multiple trademark registrations, and there are literally millions of copyrighted works with "kiss" in the title.
Works for which protection has expired are in the public domain. In the US, works of the federal government are not protected.
Yes; they will be protected through 2020.
Stuff that unpublished. Like if a book is unpublished. Not all books get published.
Both published and unpublished works can be protected by copyrights, trademarks, and patents. Copyrights protect original works of authorship, trademarks protect symbols or words that identify goods or services, and patents protect inventions or discoveries.