Legal Questions : How to Copyright Items

You may have recently composed a poem or written a short story, or written a song or come up with software package and you want to protect it, and you heard about this thing copyright but you don’t know where to start to begin the process.

Hello! I’m Robert Tad and I’m here to answer how to copyright items? Well, first of all the copyright law in the United States is a federal law and is primarily govern and ministered and supervised by the United States copyright office, they have a website that you may go to that basically describes what is the subject of copyright and what is not, it delineates the different between the copyright and a trademark and a patent.

If you go on that site and you understand the terminology and the process and procedure then you can follow that and apply for a copyright, if you don’t we strongly recommend that you see the services of a specialist in patent’s trademarks and copyright, you can usually find the names of those individuals in your yellow logo phonebook, I’m Robert Tad and thank you for watching.