If you are a creative person with many works under your belt, you might want to seriously consider employing a copyright attorney to copyright your works. Copyrights last for the life of an author copyright lawyers plus 50 years.

Having you works copyrighted has many benefits. A copyright gives you the exclusive right to reproduce or copy the work or change its form whenever you feel like it. For example if you feel like creating a sequel and revising or updating the work. Only you can perform the work or display it in public; everyone else has to request your permission first. You are the only person who can distribute the work for profit. You can sell your right to control over the copyrighted work, so when you write your next big thriller you can sell the movie rights and keep the right to create a sequel. Registration informs the world that you own the work and all the rights of ownership. Registration also protects your rights in the twenty foreign countries that still condition legal protection on public notice that the rights have been claimed. Your work will be in the Library of Congress! You cannot sue for copyright infringement or get an order from a judge to make somebody stop using your work unless your work is registered either within the three months after your work is first published, or before the infringement first occurs. If you succeed in an infringement suit, you are entitled to monetary damages even if you are unable to prove how much money you actually lost because of the infringement. Should you succeed, the defendant will have to pay your smiling copyright attorney.

Plagiarism is rife. Everyday we read about people – artists, writers, composers – accusing others of stealing whole or partial works and profiting from it. Thankfully most have a copyright attorney to handle such cases and if need be, bring the case to copyright litigation.