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If I make a video and put it on youtube. I want to prevent other people from stealing it. Can I put "COPYRIGHT © 2007" on video? Even though NO action would be taken if the video was really stolen. I just want to scare and prevent them from stealing my videos! I know its alot of money to copyright. So please know if it's alright event though I won't take any actions.

Thank you.

2007-07-05 06:42:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anthony 2 in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

7 answers

The copyright notice is enough to copyright the video.

Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is “created” when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. “Copies” are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. “Phonorecords” are material objects embodying fixations of sounds (excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or LPs. Thus, for example, a song (the “work”) can be fixed in sheet music (“copies”) or in phonograph disks (“phonorecords”), or both. If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date.

Notice of Copyright

The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U.S. law, although it is often beneficial. Because prior law did contain such a requirement, however, the use of notice is still relevant to the copyright status of older works.

Notice was required under the 1976 Copyright Act. This requirement was eliminated when the United States adhered to the Berne Convention, effective March 1, 1989. Although works published without notice before that date could have entered the public domain in the United States, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) restores copyright in certain foreign works originally published without notice. For further information about copyright amendments in the URAA, request Circular 38b.

The Copyright Office does not take a position on whether copies of works first published with notice before March 1, 1989, which are distributed on or after March 1, 1989, must bear the copyright notice.

Use of the notice may be important because it informs the public that the work is protected by copyright, identifies the copyright owner, and shows the year of first publication. Furthermore, in the event that a work is infringed, if a proper notice of copyright appears on the published copy or copies to which a defendant in a copyright infringement suit had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant’s interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement in mitigation of actual or statutory damages, except as provided in section 504(c)(2) of the copyright law. Innocent infringement occurs when the infringer did not realize that the work was protected.

The use of the copyright notice is the responsibility of the copyright owner and does not require advance permission from, or registration with, the Copyright Office.

2007-07-05 08:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by Mark 7 · 0 1

In your case though you actually would own the copyright (assuming the video were made by you) because current laws in pretty much all countries are that works are born in copyright.

Whether you want to enforce the copyright is of course up to you so you can very well decide not to do anything to those who steal it (though if you aren't trying to collect any money, why care if they put it on their web site unaltered?).

You might be better off just allowing people to copy it freely but require them to copy the whole thing including credits if they do.

2007-07-05 06:56:53 · answer #2 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 0 0

If you make a video that is your property and protected automatically by copyright. You need to document your posting and information about the video for reference should a court case ever arise over copyright laws.

2007-07-05 07:39:34 · answer #3 · answered by kyghostchaser2006 3 · 0 0

in the US if you produced the original work like a video tape then it is automatically under copyright. So sure you can say it is copyright if it is your work.

2007-07-05 06:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by jautomatic 5 · 3 0

What you want to do is 100% legal and the smart thing to do.

Actually, copyrighting is free. All you have to do is claim that you have the copyright to something you made, and that's it - it's copyrighted (©)!

The tough things to do are trademarks (™) and registered trademarks (®).

2007-07-05 06:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by zipboing 3 · 0 0

i'd say put it, but just realize if people want to steal it they will. it's the type of society we live in now a days. it's hard to prevent. I hope you get your results though

2007-07-05 06:50:48 · answer #6 · answered by cutest chick!!! 3 · 0 0

lying is only illegal when under oath or in the course of an official investigation.

2007-07-05 06:46:58 · answer #7 · answered by Zatoichi 3 · 0 3

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