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Can I get a copyright for free? If you are a creator looking to obtain copyright for your creations, you may be surprised to learn that you automatically gain copyright for your original creative works from the moment that work is "fixed in a tangible form of expression."

Order forms and other publications from Library of Congress, Copyright Office- COPUBS, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20559 or call (202) 707-9100 or 1-877-476-0778 (toll free). Access and download circulars and other information from the Copyright Office website at .copyright.gov.

Supplementary Registration is a special type of copyright registration that may be filed to correct or amplify the information in an existing registration if that information is incorrect or incomplete. The Copyright Office refers to the existing registration as the ?basic registration.?

Supplemen- tary registration is the only legal mode permitting authors and claimants to augment the registration with a correction or amplification. A supplementary registration may be used either to correct or to amplify information in a registration.

In general, all you need to do is create a work of authorship and write it down or otherwise record it somewhere. This will automatically create copyright protections. In theory, you do not need to own the original copy in order to own the copyright.

Process for Copyright Renewal The rules for copyright renewal vary depending on when the work was originally copyrighted. Copyright renewals are required for works published before January 1, 1978, to upkeep copyright protection. For works created after that date, renewal is not necessary.