Is it legal to put copyright on your work?

Yes, I know many people steal people's ideas and plagarism going on. Hence, the main reason for this question. Lol. Well, you see I love writing poetry and have been wanting to ...show more

My project is a collection of video essays about a TV show, and the original copyrighted video and sound (which I have not licensed) is edited to illustrate my argument, similar to how Siskel & Ebert would do it.  The videos are intended to be inter...

Fifteen years ago, my friend and I were hanging out one night when I told a funny story that happened to me earlier that day. After I finished telling the story, my friend remarked that it would make a funny premise for a movie, and we then spent the...

I understand copyrighting books, individual artworks, etc., but what do you do with a whole line of images, like a landscape photographer who posts hundreds to thousands of photos yearly, do they need to get a copyright for every single photo? What about...

I do not own rights to James Cameron's Avatar! Would it be copyright infringement if I would make original parody animation movie of James Cameron's Avatar and put it on Youtube? It's said that I can upload only something I own - the original content...

Okay I have a LOT of artwork, roughly 100 to 150 pieces. Drawings, Ink work, Charcoal, color, paintings etc. Some on posterboard, some on notebook paper, others on computer done in photoshop and/or paint, some on sketchbook paper, and some on printer...

I run a website that is niche and more getting well known in it's small circle of enthusiasts. Not big, but around 10,000 visitors a month. Enough that I'm always surprised at the number of people who know the site. One thing I've noticed as popularity...

I was trying to copyright some of my work(beats as a music producer) earlier and had trouble so I stopped. My parents had told me not to use there address, so I had to get a p.o. box from usps. Now my question was for SR Registration, On the parts where...