how does something get copyrighted?

Caton · Post by **Caton** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:07 am

how does songs\music\sound\voices\art\assets\movies\other get copyrighted?

garirry · Post by **garirry** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:17 am

They get in contact with whoever is responsible for copyright in their country, I believe pay a small fee, and that's probably it. Note that I'm fairly certain that standard copyright is automatically applied to each released thing and recorded only to make sure there aren't any problems. Then again, I'm not a lawyer and I suck at pretty much everything law or related to social.

tyteen4a03 · Post by **tyteen4a03** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:31 pm

garirry wrote:They get in contact with whoever is responsible for copyright in their country, I believe pay a small fee, and that's probably it. Note that I'm fairly certain that standard copyright is automatically applied to each released thing and recorded only to make sure there aren't any problems. Then again, I'm not a lawyer and I suck at pretty much everything law or related to social.

You're thinking of trademarks.

All works of yours are automatically copyrighted.

Caton · Post by **Caton** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:55 pm

but you would need prove you made it.

garirry · Post by **garirry** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:07 pm

Caton wrote:but you would need prove you made it.

The fact that it exists somewhere on the Internet or in real life is proof as-is.

tyteen4a03 · Post by **tyteen4a03** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:03 pm

It's rather straightforward if you have the source files.

Caton · Post by **Caton** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:03 pm

how does someone get a company? and how would they prove it that the company was real?

garirry · Post by **garirry** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:35 pm

Caton wrote:how does someone get a company? and how would they prove it that the company was real?

Register the name at your country's government's website and pay a yearly fee.