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Number of copyright registrations
Each piece of work you create should be registered for copyright. For example, if you're a designer, you should copyright each design. If you're a musician, you should copyright each song you create, each set of lyrics, each album cover artwork, and so on.
Copyright length
Copyright lasts at least the length of the author's/creator's life, and often for a further 70 years after the death of the author.
Copyright certificate
When you register a copyright, you'll receive an official certificate to validate the copyright and prove you are the owner of the copyright.
Linking to your copyright certificates
If a copyrighted work is published, either online or offline, a great deterent against someone copying that work is to include a link to your copyright certificate on or next to the work. Within your copyright account, you may choose whether each copyright certificate is private, invitation-only, or public.
Affidavit
Copyright Index provides legal affidavits for extra proof of copyright ownership, where we legally swear that you are the owner of the copyright.
If someone copies your work online
If someone has copied your work online, we can protect your rights by serving an official 'take-down' notice. This gives official notice to the person who has infringed your copyright to remove the content quickly. The notice is sent to the person who has copied your work, the actual web host, or a search engine, setting out that they are either hosting or linking to material that is infringing copyright, and giving them notice to remove the copyrighted works. Websites and hosting companies are required to remove the material, and search engines must stop linking to the infringed material. As well as removing copied work from smaller or unknown websites, Copyright Index also works closely with major websites (such as eBay and YouTube), and all search engines (such as Google), to ensure your copied work is removed quickly.
If someone copies your work offline
Copyright Index has a range of proceedures to stop offline copyright infringement. The most common is to issue a cease and desist letter - a document sent to an individual or business to stop illegal activity ("cease") and not take it up again later ("desist").
Transfer rights
There are times where the copyright owner wishes to transfer the ownership of the copyright to another party. For example, a designer may create a logo for a client, and transfer copyright ownership once he has been paid for the work. Transferring copyright can be done very quickly and easily from within your copyright account.
How it works
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