Assume that you have just written an app for a smart phone. What material would

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Assume that you have just written an app for a smart phone. What material would you need to submit to the Copyright Office in order to copyright it? The submission requires a reading which is the images below. Open image in new tab to see it in full size. Need between 1 and 2 pages long. Thank you

Copyright As we have seen, authors need to protect their intellectual property. Copyright has become the way to do that. So, we need to learn about copyrights. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I will refer you to the website of the US Copyright Office. There you will find a huge amount of information about what is copyrightable, by who, for how long and at what cost. In order to complete this course, you need to read the material that I mention below and the relevant sections of the Copyright Office's website. In any discussions that we have regarding copyright and in the upcoming quiz, I will expect that you have done S0 In this paper, I will highlight a few things. This is not a comprehensive discussion. Furthermore, you will not become an authority on copyright law when you are finished with this module. You will have a greater familiarity with copyright issues than most of your peers and, maybe, even your future bosses. First of all, please refer to the first_section of the copyright act for the official definition of terms. Some of these terms are confusing, so read the stuff carefully. What can be copyrighted? The law gives protection to original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device USC 17:102(a) The act goes on to give a list of examples. Paragraph (b) tells you want cannot be copyrighted: In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. So what does this

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If we want to copyright an app, we need to send the following data to the copyright office and that too in the described format :

In this part we simply need to write an application to the copyright office along with the apps description, simple procedure abut how you made it, all the necessary specifications of the app, date of creation, persons involved and time taken to built it.

Suppose the app is having various features and is working on different aspects, therefore you will need to specify all those data also, along with the submitted copyright application. You should be precise about what you are writing and should write what the application is really doing.

For each application and its services you will have to pay requisite fee which will be according to your app.

This is basically same as making a patent where you will have to sign the document along with authorized law person to ensure that the process works in the desired way.

For copyrighting you need to pay an amount according to the rules of the Copyright office. It should be in the format of a Demand draft or through e-payment.

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