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Depends on what you're looking to do.
There are several ways, many which can be a pain, depends on how paranoid you are.
From the moment you create your work, it is copyright. Copyrights are inherently given to the creator, copyrighting it simply acknowledges that work.
What I would suggest, is simply making a CD of the works you would like to copyright, and mail yourself a couple of copies. Keep those sealed. Don't open them. If there is ever a dispute, the post-office dated and sealed envelope with your work inside is all the copyright you need. It is considered a legal document, and will hold up in court.
Of course, you can also submit it to the library of congress and pay 20 bucks a pop or whatever it is nowadays, but that is very time consuming and expensive. I would only recommend that if you have a particular work that you are looking to distribute. Applying for a copyright through the library of congress, really does nothing except verifies the work and allows a little more leeway to recover damages if someone tries to use it without permission. For most uses, if you were to copyright everything, it can get very time consuming and very expensive.
Hope this helps.
Joe.
Last edited by mrjoek; 04-03-2006 at 09:21 PM..
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