Protect your creative works today!

Copyright is a legal right that grants the creator of original works exclusive rights to use, distribute, and reproduce their work for a certain period of time.

Copyright can protect literary works, sound recordings, computer software, audiovisual works, graphic, sculptural, pictorial, choreographic, pantomimes, and logos.

Registering your copyright provides legal evidence of ownership, allowing you to enforce your rights in court, seek statutory damages, and deter infringement.

Yes, your work is automatically protected by copyright as soon as it is created and fixed in a tangible medium of expression. However, registration provides additional legal benefits.

No, copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, procedures, or methods. It only protects the expression of these ideas in a tangible form.

Copyright protects original works of authorship, while trademarks protect symbols, names, and slogans used to identify goods or services.

Using copyrighted material without permission is generally considered infringement unless it falls under a specific exception like fair use.

Fair use is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.

Your work must be independently created and possess minimal creativity to be considered original and eligible for copyright protection.

If someone infringes on your copyright, you can send a cease-and-desist letter, file a complaint with the U.S. Copyright Office, or take legal action to enforce your rights.

The U.S. is a member of international treaties that provide reciprocal copyright protection among member countries. However, you may still want to register your copyright in other countries for additional legal protection.

Yes, you can copyright a website's content, including text, images, videos, and other original materials. However, you cannot copyright the website's layout, design, or functionality itself.

No, copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases. These may be eligible for trademark protection instead.