Exclusive Rights
When you register a copyright, as the copyright owner you are granted certain exclusive rights including the exclusive right to:
- Reproduce the work.
- Prepare any derivative works based on your copyrighted work.
- Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease or lending.
- Display or perform the copyrighted work publicly.
- Authorize others to exercise these rights.
For works originally created on or after January 01, 1978, the duration of copyright protection is for a term for the author's life plus 70 years after the author's death. For works made for hire, the duration of copyright protection is 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first.
- 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
- Public Domain
- Moral Rights
- Logos
- Names & Phrases
- Recipes
- Cartoons & Comic Strips
- Photographs
- Play, Treatments & Scripts
- Visual Arts
