Copyright is an interesting animal. It is protected from the moment a work is created.<\/p>\n
Without getting too confusing and technical, there are several searches that may be made to check for copyright infringement of a work or picture. You can do your own searches or have a Los Angeles copyright and trademark lawyer<\/a> do them. There are trademark searches to find out if a potential new mark is already registered and patent searches to see if an invention is really new and capable of being patented.<\/p>\n Back to the copyright searches. Copyright protection is Johnny-on-the-spot when it is first created. In fact, just about anything with some component of creativity gets copyright protection \u2013 restaurant menu designs, website designs, etc. However, federal registration for copyright is another can of worms entirely. They are easily searched because the government has a complete list.<\/p>\n But it is virtually impossible to discover all non-registered and copyrighted (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Copyright is an interesting animal. It is protected from the moment a work is created. Without getting too confusing and technical, there are several searches that may be made to check for copyright infringement of a work or picture. You…<\/span><\/p>\n