From The Mind To The Market
10-30-08
You have come up with a great idea but now what?
This blog will help the new and professional make their dream come true. That is if your dream is to create something from nothing and go through the proper stages until it is launched and marketed internationally.
First, you need to develop the concept onto the page or record it like a video or song to establish copyright. Once you have taken your intangible idea and made it real/tangible, you can protect it with copyright.
Copyright registration is recommended by intellectual property lawyers and is the right move. Go to USPTO.gov for American requirement and costs or CIPO.gc.ca for the Canadian site. For a fee the government will document the date of registration that your intellectual property existed.
All this does is help you prove that your product existed at such-and-such a date. The government will not come to your assistance should someone else copy and make money off of your product. You will have to fund any lawsuit or action against the person/company using your copyright/product without your permission. So if you end up in court, you will have the advantage of proof that you registered the copyright.
Some people say that you can use affidavits and witnesses to say or claim that you invented the story or song or video on the date in question but take into consideration that anyone challenging you in court can do the same for them.
Even though Copyright is granted upon creation, you really should pay to register it to prove you are the originator of the item. You deserve the credit.
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