Copyright Registration
Copyright Registration is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including songs, music, lyrics, literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. In general, copyright registration is a simple formality intended to make a record of the basic facts of a particular copyright.
Who Can Claim Copyright?
Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.
Benefits of copyright protection
Copyright is essentially a private right. You, the copyright owner must decide how to exploit your copyright work and how to enforce your copyright. A copyright owner can decide whether or not there will be any use of the copyright work falling within the scope of the economic rights and, if so, whether he or she will use the copyright work and/or license one or more other people to use the work.
A copyright owner can also benefit from copyright by selling or agreeing a transfer of copyright to someone else.
Many of the options available to a copyright owner will involve contractual agreements which may be just as important as the rights provided by copyright law. The right contractual agreement can minimise the chances of a dispute over use of your copyright work.
A certificate of copyright registration is evidence that your work is protected by copyright and that you, the person registered, are the owner. In the event of a legal dispute, you do not have to prove ownership; the onus is on your opponent to disprove it.
Copyright Registration Office
This web site is sponsored by Songrite Copyright registration Office and we reccomend registering the copyrights of your work using the online copyright registration service available here; Registration of copyrights
