Copyright

Service Description

A copyright gives certain exclusive rights to individuals who create original works of authorship, including literary, musical, dramatic, artistic works. Literary works is quite broad and includes musical works with any accompanying words; dramatic works – including any accompanying music; pictorial, graphic, pantomime, and choreographic works; motion pictures, sound recordings, drawings to name a few. To be copyrightable, the work must be more than an idea, it must be “fixed” in a tangible form of expression. The work must also be original. It cannot be copied from another source. Why Register your Copyright? Advantages of registering your work includes: (1) It establishes a public record of your ownership of the work. (2) It enables the copyright owner to sure for copyright infringement. (3) Allows you to record the registration with U.S. Customs to protect against importation of infringing copies into the U.S. (4) It allows for the election of statutory damages and the ability to recover attorney’s fees in an infringement action. We routinely file copyright applications with the U.S. Copyright Office and where litigation is imminent, we can seek registration on an expedited basis.