Registration

Have you authored a creative work you would like to protect with copyright? We can help.

U.S. Copyright law provides automatic protection for any original work once it is ‘fixed in a tangible medium’. This means if you write it down, record it on film or digitally, or something similar, copyright protection exists but might not be fully enforceable.

Having a copyright registration brings important legal rights. If your copyright is registered, it makes it much harder for anyone else to claim they were infringing innocently or accidentally. Notably, if you register properly you can qualify for statutory damages, which makes it much easier to establish what should be paid to you in a trial.