When I see "Copyright 2005" on a website, what does that mean? Does it mean that the work has been registered somewhere so that no one else has claim to it? Or is that just something they put up just for show?
2006-09-09 10:29:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
When you see "Copyright 2005", that means that's when the work was created. The name appearing before or after the date means that that person is the author or is the copyright owner of said work due to it being a work for hire. You can register your work with the Library of Congress any time after that in unpublished or published form. If you submit it as an unpublished piece, the work must be typed in manuscript form. The Copyright TX application form, plus the appropriate fee of $30.00 should be in the same package. But if you wait until after your work has been published, you have to send 2 copies of your book together with the Form TX and the fee within 3 months to the Library of Congress. Your copy of the registration form will come to your mailbox in about 6 months or slightly longer. Your copyright will be in force for your lifetime plus fifty years before it falls into public domain, unless one of your heirs renews the copyright.
2006-09-09 17:12:54 · answer #1 · answered by Call Me Babs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you publish a book or other work, you claim the copyright the year it is published. You don't have to register it. The moment you write something, you automatically own the copyright to what you wrote unless you are writing for someone else, such as your employer, as part of your job, or are being paid to write it under a contract.
2006-09-09 10:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 12:42:30 · answer #3 · answered by erlebach 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means that it has been copyrighten in 2005 and the material is claimed, and unfortunataly, will probably never be in the public domain ever again because of copyright laws.
2006-09-09 10:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means it ´s registered
2006-09-09 10:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by sta anonima 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋