Consider this: The Constitution of the United States specifically reserves for the Federal Government the ability to protect copyright. The right to bear arms, the rights of freedom of speech and religion, the right to a trial by jury, to due process and the protection from unreasonable search and seizure — all these came as amendments, as a coda to the actual constitution, where in Article 1 the Federal government has the power to secure “for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
The minute you put your idea into material form – as words on paper, paint on canvas, or ones and zeros on a computer screen – it’s yours. It’s copyrighted. So, why go through the bother of officially registering your copright? Attorney Nicholas Wells takes us through the steps of how and why to register your copyrights.
