How do i get a copyright?

Question

for my writing and stuff... is there like a website that i can go to or something? maybe a phone number... if anyone can help me that'd be amazing. thanks!

Answer 1

You can try one that I'm on called http://chapteread.com   They have a link at the top of the site that explains copyright. Good luck!!

Answer 2

Here is the first link I came up with, not sure how much this will help, but give it a try!

http://www.wikihow.com/Copyright-a-Book

Good luck! :)

Answer 3

As Laser Kidz has pointed, out, there's a sort of implied copyright once you've printed something.  The only liability with that is the need to prove when it was printed.  If you're feeling particularly paranoid, you can do a "poor man's copyright" and mail it to yourself (the postage acts as proof of date).

Answer 4

http://www.copyright.gov/

Follow the instructions on this website.

Also, once you have printed out your story, it is unofficially copyritten. So i wouldn't worry too much about it getting stolen once you have.

Answer 5

In 163 countries copyright exists the moment you make something original, like a poem or a story.

The problem is when someone rips you off and then you have to prove that the copyright was yours and not someone elses. It's not good enough to have a dated version on your own or a friends computer or send it in a letter because you could easily alter that.

It has to be independent proof.

You can upload them to a special webpage and they fingerprint them and record the time you uploaded. This means that you have an independent record showing when you made it.

Now about price, you can use the US copyright service which costs about $45 per application you make. This takes about 4 to 6 months to get registered.

You can also use an international online service called http://www.provemycopyright.com. You get an account with 1Gb of space to upload lots of your works, even if they are in demo or work-in-progress format. When you write a new version or a new poem etc., you can just upload that one too and it doesn't cost you anything extra.

Both will register your copyright, so I guess it's just a question of how many poems you want to copyright, how quick you want it to be registered and also whether you want to be able to register copyright before you have a totally finished version or not.

Hope this helps!