Get a Basic Understanding of a Copyright

Series Summary

Copyrights allow the creators of original works many rights and should be obtained to ensure those rights. Copyrights allow the holders to prepare, reproduce, display, and or perform their works while disallowing others to do so without permission from the copyright holder. Obtaining a copyright is important for writers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and generally anyone with an original work. If you would like to learn how to obtain a copyright for your work, you can learn for free from one of our experts.

In this free video series, learn how to copyright your work from expert Nathan Boehme. Nathan will tell you all about copyrights including what is a copyright and what the difference is between copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Additionally, he will demonstrate how to get a "poor man's copyright", how to get a copyright application, how to choose the right copyright application form for you, how to fill out a "TX" copyright application, how to fill out an "SR" copyright application form, how to ship your documents to the copyright office, how to register for a copyright under a pseudonym, and how to reapply for a copyright.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Nathan Boehme writer and film director with Expert Village. In this series, it's all about copyrights. So I've been working with film director for about ten years now and one thing that I have learned in that time. Is if you ever actually planned on showing your creative work to anyone and if it's any good, there is the chance that somebody out there is going to try and steal it and claim it as there own. It's unfortunate and unfair and the creative world would be much happier place without these people but they are not going anywhere so the rest of us need to take steps necessary to protect our work. That is the whole point of this series getting a copyright all of my creative work from film scrips and treatments to photos and finished films all of them are protected under the blanket of copyright law. In this series, I'm going to take you through the step by step process of getting that type of protection for your work."