Copyright
is a legal term describing rights given to creators for their literary
and artistic works.
The Copyrights are literary works (such as novels, poems, plays, reference
works, newspapers and computer programs, dramatic works, musical works,
artistic works and graphic works.
How
is Copyright obtained?
In
the Hong Kong and UK, Copyright in a work comes into existence automatically
when the work is created.
How
is Copyright be Registered?
Copyright
itself does not depend on official procedures. A created work is considered
protected by copyright as soon as it exists.
There is no statutory requirement to register Copyright in the Hong
Kong and UK nor any formal Register available to record any claim to
own the Copyright in any particular work.
In the China and U.S.A copyright registration may be necessary, or beneficial.
Further details can be supplied on request.