Advantages of copyright registration
- By registering your copyright work, you create a public record of your work and a concrete proof that you are the owner of the creative work
- If someone copies your work, you can sue them for copyright infringement
Copyright owners have the exclusive right to either do or authorize the doing of any of the following:
- to reproduce the work in any material form including the storing of it in any medium by electronic means
- to issue copies of the work to the public not being copies already in publication
- to perform the work in public, or communicate it to the public to make any translation or adaptation of the work
- to sell or give on hire, or offer for sale or hire a copy regardless of whether such copy has been sold or given on hire on earlier occasions