What can you copyright & how to do so?

I run a successful website www.TheKingisBorn.com & we are interested in finding out more details about whether or not we can copyright the term "The King is Born" & if so what we need to do & how we go about doing so to get it completed. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

 

Here is a link to the United States Patent Office faq's which should give you a good initial understanding of what you need to do:

http://www.uspto.gov/smallbusiness/copyrights/faq.html

 

Thanks, I appreciate your help & support a lot!

 

Copyright is usually not for a short phrase such as, "The King is Born". Sounds more like a trademark rather than a copyright that you are looking for.

 

The website name as merely a website name is not eligible for copyright protection in the U.S. It is a trademark matter. In the U.S. the appropriate governmental office for registration of a trademark on the federal level is United States Patent and Trademark Office. You can submit an application yourself, but there are lots of pitfalls most people are clueless about. Also, the filing fee for registering a mark in a single classification runs from $275 to $325, so I would be impressed if you were to make that kind of investment for a site that is only an aggregater site. If you need more specifics, pm me.

 

A copyright for something like that will generally be a copyright not for content, but as a trademark so make sure you search up under that. If it is actual content all content published on a web or blog, if its original get's a free copyright.

 

Thanks, appreciate your help & advice!

 

I do agree, copyright/copyrighting is usually for written documents, in your case you just want the "The King is Born" to be associated with your website, then I do agree you have to consider searching for the process of getting trademark

 

In my post above I gave a link to the United States Patent Office for copyright information. Here is the link to the United States Patent Office faq's for Trademarks which should give you a good initial understanding of what you need to do: http://www.uspto.gov/smallbusiness/trademarks/faq.html.

Now you have the information for both Copyright and Trademarks on your sites.

 

Thanks, it's much appreciated!

 

Ok thanks I will do my research on Trademarks!

 

You want a trademark, not a copyright.

 

Thanks, how much does a trademark typically cost?

 

You need to spend a few weeks reading techdirt because your question, on its face, is offensive and frankly what is wrong with a wide range of things with CP and IP related matters. That is before I get to the random mishmash of stuff your site offers. Huffpo you are not.

http://thekingisborn.com/2012/03/in-defense-of-goldman-sachs/ really? Its for all intents and purposes an autoblog. I wont bother with the NBA background as it pertains to posts that should be highlighting the denigration of society. I tried to read some stuff but you folks didn't write anything you just piggyback on the work of others.

Nigel

 

geez that was a bit testy, sorry... You are looking to "trademark" a name. I still fail to see the point though. Last I checked the paperwork was around 300, lawyer involved about the same but I was referred to her and she was frankly a total stud and more like 300 hourly.



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