Why Register a Copyright?
When you produce an original work, such as a book, an article, a song or a design, your work is automatically protected under U.S. copyright law from the moment you create it. However, registering your copyright does offer certain legal benefits, and registration is required in order for a U.S. citizen or resident to file suit for infringement.
Register a copyright for your work through the U.S. Copyright Office.
Copyright Education
To learn about the basics of copyright law and the exclusive rights of copyright holders, visit the education section of copyright.com to register for an upcoming webinar, watch a brief video, listen to podcasts for content creators, and read a basic overview of U.S. copyright law.
License Your Content
Your copyright-protected material may be of tremendous value to others. Licensing solutions from Copyright Clearance Center make it easy for you to authorize the use of your content according to your terms and conditions, and to generate royalties for those uses.
Visit Rights Central to learn about your licensing options and to access helpful tools to manage your licensing activities with Copyright Clearance Center.
Copyright.com presented excellent material to support our school's policy on the use of copyrighted materials.
Marie Miller, MLS
Director of Library Services
The Art Institute of Tampa
A branch of Miami International University of Art & Design
I have been struggling with my role as a librarian in a profit institution, specifically with copyright issues. I found this presentation did provide a great overview and assessment in an hour, even more effective than some of the all day workshops I've attended.
Suzanne Barrett
System Librarian
Pinnacle Career Institute
An excellent introduction (or refresher) about the basics of copyright law for generalists who need to speak to clients about copyright compliance.
Bob Kirshner, Attorney
Partner, Burk & Reedy, LLP
I appreciated the clarity and the unequivocal nature of the presentation, for relative newbies to copyright issues. Any further questions I may have will now be better grounded.
Thank you.
Myrna Rochester
Free-lance author/editor
TAA member
Basic enough for beginners, but sufficiently comprehensive to meet refresher-course needs of those for whom protection of their intellectual property is a matter of economic necessity.
Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Independent author and blogger
The session on Copyright for Today's Academic World was excellent! Copyright information that can often be complex was presented in an easy to understand format. The presenters were very knowledgeable and there was time for a great Q & A's at the end. I would recommend this session to anyone wanting to learn copyright basics in an academic environment.
Monica Aebly,
Copyright Office
Western Washington University
This is the first course where I've been able to follow and understand the discussion — the presenter was great!!
Tomiko Envela
RAND Library
Document Delivery and Monographic Acq. Supervisor
