What Is Meant by Intellectual Copyrights?

Features

• Copyright law protects work in literary, dramatic and musical categories. It does not protect ideas, procedures or facts.
  
  

Time Frame

• A work has copyright protection starting from when it is created and put into physical form. Generally, copyright protection lasts until 70 years after the death of the creator.
  
  

Consideration

• It is not necessary to have work registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. However, in order to bring a lawsuit for copyright infringement, the work must be registered.
  
  

Registration

• A work can be registered by completing and filing an application, with a copy of the work attached, and paying a filing fee.
  
  

International Aspect

• While the United States has reciprocal copyright agreements with other countries, these agreements do not extend to all countries. The U.S. Copyright Office maintains information with respect to which countries the United States has copyright agreements with.