Changed Work
If you have registered your work and then make changes to it, you may make a new copyright claim if the changes are substantial and creative, something more than just editorial changes or minor changes. This would qualify as a new derivative work. For instance, simply making spelling corrections throughout a work does not warrant a new registration, but adding an additional chapter would.
- Introduction
- What Copyright Protects
- Exclusive Rights
- Multiple Works - One Application
- Benefits of Copyright Registration
- If You Don't Register
- Copyright, Trademark, or Patent
- Who Can Register
- Work Made for Hire
- Joint Works
- Non U.S. Applicants
- Pseudonyms
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright Deposit or Date Stamp
- Governing Law
- International Protection
- Publication
- Derivative Works
- Changed Work
- Copyright Infringement
- Non-Infringing Use
- Moral Rights
- Public Domain
- Logos
- Names & Phrases
- Recipes
- Cartoons & Comic Strips
- Photographs
- Play, Treatments & Scripts
- Visual Arts
