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Copyright Registration support from our Copyright team, handled end-to-end as part of our Intellectual Property practice.
The copyright application is filed within 48 hours of receiving all documents. A mandatory 30-day waiting period is enforced by the Copyright Office for third-party objections. Registration is completed in 6 to 12 months in the absence of discrepancy letters or objections.
We make legal and intellectual property filings seamless, secure, and fully transparent. Here is how we handle your assignment from start to finish:
Understand your goals, check eligibility, and draft the filing roadmap.
Collect required records and conduct compliance checks for errors.
Draft and submit applications to the registry within 48 business hours.
Monitor application progress and respond to office actions/objections.
Handover certified registrations and provide post-filing support.
No, copyright protection exists automatically from the moment the work is created in a fixed form. However, registration is strongly recommended as it provides prima facie evidence of ownership that is critical for enforcement and licensing.
Software is protected as a 'literary work' under the Copyright Act. Registration protects the source code and object code from unauthorized copying, modification, and distribution. However, the underlying algorithm or business logic (as opposed to the code expression) requires patent protection.
For literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, copyright is valid for the lifetime of the author plus 60 years after their death. For cinematograph films, sound recordings, and published works of government/international organizations, the term is 60 years from the year of publication.