Q: What would copyright protect?
A: The copyright laws would protect the original work of the authorship that would be including the literary, the dramatic, the musical, and the artistic works that would be things like poetry, the novels, movies, computer software, songs and architecture.
Q: How would you benefit from the registration of a copyright?
A: Having the registration would be required in order to be able to have a lawsuit for copyright infringement against people using your work. The copyright registration would allow you to be able to be eligible to pursue the statutory damages and the fee’s against the infringers of post registration.
Q: Who would own the copyright?
A: The maker of the work as in the author would be the one to own the copyright under the copyright laws. The author would have the right unless it was assigned to a different person.
Q: When would a copyright be considered infringed?
A: When your work has not been authorized to be reproduced, distributed, or even when it has been publicly display or publicly performed.
Q: How long would the copyright protect yoru work for?
A: Any of the work that had been created since January 1, 1978, would be protected for the entire life of its author, and an another 70 years. The works that would be anonymous, pseudonymous and the works that are made for hire, thelength would last 95 years.
The protection terms for the work that had been published or even registered prior to the January, 1 1978 date, would only be for the author’s life and 70 additional years. Any work done will have no expiration beforee December 31, 2002 date. But if they have then they would then have the 95 years from the 1978 copy write laws.
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