Copyright Registration

Your art only belongs to you.

It’s one thing that you have to remember when creating anything. Whether you are bringing a painting to life or you are writing a novel encompassing whole worlds; whether you are creating music or you are lending your beautiful voice to one; your art only belongs to you.

Making that art work for you – earning you money is how you get motivated to create more. However, in a world where mediocre ideas are many and good ideas such as yours are not, there are many thieves. Those thieves or copycats, can peddle your art as their own – stealing the bounty of your hard work. Is there a way to stop them?

Yes, there is! It’s called copyright registration. A copyright is a legal right that you hold over your creations since the time you create them. It protects your ownership of your artistic/literary/cinematographic/music/audio and other works. By acquiring copyright registration, you make copycats think twice before copying you.

What does Copyright Registration do?

Through copyright registration, you, as the owner, the author, the publisher or the artist, become the sole owner of your artistic/literary works. It gives you the right to stop others from copying your work. Once you get it, no one can:

1. Imitate
2. Copy
3. Reproduce your work.

What is the Copyright Registration Process?

Copyright registration is a deeply involved and time-consuming process. However, it’s as much as rewarding. Similar to trademark registration, it goes through the legal motions to get completed. The steps of the same are tomorrow:

1. Give us the power of attorney to file the application on your behalf
2. Let us File the application of copyright registration
3. The registrar, upon receiving your application, will issue you a diary number.
4. Wait for 30 days, if we receive any objections on the artistic work, we’ll tell you, and fix them in an instant.
5. After 30 days, the application will be processed. If there are no objections found, which we make sure happens, your application will be accepted.
6. And the copyright registration process will complete within the next 30 days.

See how easily you can register your copyright, if you give us the right to do so? So, why wait! Contact our experts today and together we’ll take your application to take it to completion.

Now, how long is copyright valid after you get the registration? 60 years after you’ve left the mortal coil. After that, unlike trademark renewal, you won’t have to take steps to renew it.

Documents Required for Copyright Registration

Primarily there are few mandatory documents required irrespective of the field in which the copyright registration is being made. Below are some of the following

• Name, Address & Nationality of the Applicant
• Nature of the Applicant’s Interest in the Copyright
• State whether the applicant is the author of the work or the representative of the author.
• NATURE OF THE WORK
• Class & Description of the Work
• Literary or artistic work, for example Title of the Work

In case of a website, give the URL of the website Language of the Work.

Whether English or Hindi, or any combination of languages If Published, the Date of Publication

Publication in internal magazines, like a company magazine or a research paper submitted to a professor does not count as publication.

We at RegalGuru makes sure to assist you in registering copyrights to your work and help you in gathering all the necessary documents involved in the process. One can refer to the official Copyright guidelines provided by the government at the given link:

http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf

INR 2,499 /- All Inclusive, No hidden Charges.