To open in a new tab, click: What is a Certificate of Registration of Digital File?

To open in a new tab, click: How will registering copyright help Amazon sellers?

To open in a new tab, click: Do you do free copyright search?

To open in a new tab, click: Is copyright registration a replacement for trademark registration?

To open in a new tab, click: What’s the best time to register copyright?

1. Only copyright owners are eligible for an award of statutory damages.  An award of statutory damages allows recovery for a certain amount for copyrights infringed.
2. Copyrights owners may record their copyright registration with U.S. Custom and Border Protection which has the authority to detain, seize, forfeit, and ultimately destroy merchandise seeking entry into the United States if it bears an infringing trademark or copyright that has been registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or the U.S. Copyright Office (USCOP].

To open in a new tab, click: Why bother registering your copyright?

To open in a new tab, click: Do you file copyright applications in other countries?

To open in a new tab, click: How do I prevent others copying my photographs?

To open in a new tab, click: What to do if my Amazon photographs have been copied by another seller?

To open in a new tab, click: When is my copyrighted work protected?

To open in a new tab, click: Does “poor man’s” copyright exist?

To open in a new tab, click: Are ideas protected by copyright?

• Procedures, processes, and methods of operation;
• Systems;
• Ideas, facts, and concepts;
• Principles and discoveries;
• Titles, slogans, and other short phrases;
• Lists of ingredients;
• Creations that are not fixed in a tangible form, like an improvisational comedy sketch;
• Information that is comprised completely of common property and no original authorship, like standard calendars, height, and weight charts, tape measures, and rulers;
• Utilitarian elements of industrial designs (although the expressive elements of the design may be protected, such as a decorative lamp base);
• Familiar symbols or designs, like a “Stop” sign;
• Simple geometrical shapes; and
• Mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering or coloring

To open in a new tab, click: What cannot be protected by copyright?

• Literary Works.This category of works includes things like novels, poems, short stories, periodicals, essays, dictionaries, manuscripts, periodicals and articles. It also includes software, such as smartphone apps, video games and business software.
• Musical Works and Any Accompanying Words.This category of works includes any work that consists of musical notes and lyrics in a musical composition.
• Motion Pictures and Other Audiovisual Works.This category includes, online videos, motion pictures and television shows, video games, and slideshows.
• Sound Recordings.A sound recording is a work that results from the fixation of sounds without a visual component, whether musical or spoken. This category of works includes music on CDs, podcasts, and recorded speeches.
• Pictorial, Graphic, and Sculptural Works.This category of works includes two and three dimensional works of fine, graphic and applied art, photographs, prints and art reproductions, maps, and diagrams.
• Dramatic Works and Any Accompanying Music.A dramatic work is one in which a series of events is presented to an audience by characters through dialogue and action. This category of works includes plays, operas and musicals.
• Pantomimes and Choreographic Works.This category of works includes dances.
• Architectural Works.This category includes not only the architectural plans but also the building and any associated drawings.

• A compilation is a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole meets the requirements for copyright protection. Compilations includes collective works, like periodicals, anthologies, encyclopedias and other works in which a number of independently copyrightable works are assembled, as well as, other works, like directories and databases, that incorporate and assemble pre-existing materials, data or other information that is not independently copyrightable.
• Derivative Works.A derivative work is a work that is based on one or more preexisting works that has been transformed or modified in some way. For example, an abridged, annotated or revised edition of a book, translations and musical arrangements.

To open in a new tab, click: What can be protected by copyright?

To open in a new tab, click: What is the difference between copyright and other forms of Intellectual property?

To open in a new tab, click: How long does copyright protection last?

• © Symbol: Most works should include the © symbol. (Although U.S. law also allows the word “Copyright” or the abbreviation “Copr.”, the © symbol is preferable because it is internationally recognized whereas the other terms may not be). In the case of sound recordings, the ℗ symbol (the letter “p” in a circle) should be used instead.
• Year of Publication: If the work has been published, the year of publication should be included. If the work is unpublished the notice should indicate the unpublished nature of the work in lieu of a year. The year does not need to be included on pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, with accompanying text, if any, reproduced in or on any useful article, such as greeting cards, stationery, or jewelry.
• Copyright Owner’s Name: The notice should include the name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner.

To open in a new tab, click: What is the form of a copyright notice?

• Copyright notice makes other users aware that copyright is being claimed in the work.
• Notice identifies the copyright owner at the time the work was first published for parties seeking permission to use the work.
• Notice identifies the year of first publication, which may be used to determine the term of copyright protection in the case of an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire.

To open in a new tab, click: Should I use copyright notice?

• Originality: To be original, a work must merely be independently created. In other words, it cannot be copied from another. There is no requirement that the work be novel (as in patent law), unique, imaginative or inventive.
• Creativity: To satisfy the creativity requirement a work need only demonstrate a very small amount of creativity. Very few creations fail to satisfy this requirement.
• Fixation: To meet the fixation requirement a work must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Protection attaches automatically to an eligible work the moment the work is fixed. A work is considered to be fixed so long as it is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.

To open in a new tab, click: Requirements for copyright protection

To open in a new tab, click: How long does it take to register copyright?

• a lower filing fee ($35 for a single author who is also the sole claimant in a single work that is not made for hire, or $55 for all other online filings, compared to $85 for a paper filing).

To open in a new tab, click: What are the copyright government fees?

To open in a new tab, click: What’s required to file a copyright application?