You can get a copyright for any unique and creative content. This could range from a design, a sketch, a painting, a song recording, a music video, a movie file, a poem, a book or even a short story.

No, a copyright does not protects names, titles or word combinations, phrases, slogans etc. It protects tangible original works.

There are various categories of work that generally do not fit in the eligibility criteria for the copyright protection. These include the following; works that cannot be fixed in a physical/tangible platform of expression like unrecorded/un-noted choreographic works , or improvisational speeches or performances that do not have a written/recorded proof. titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration The facts, figures and information which are common/generic property cannot be considered under the authority of any individual like standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common source, etc.

It permits the right to sue an infringer in federal court, in case the owner holds a copyright which is obtained after registration. The copyright owner has the right to oppose any offender who claims the ownership of that particular work. Fundamentally, copyright is a private right and depends on an individual in which way he/she wants to implement or use the copyright. It is flexible in nature and is not mandatory to be utilized in the work and can also be assigned to others by the owners. Another advantage is benefitting by selling or transferring the copyright. In case any third party wants the copyright then the initial owner has the privilege of deciding whether to sell/transfer the copyright or not. The owner can do any deal/agreement while transferring or selling the copyright to the other. Copyright safeguards authentic & original work, if the owner is not registered then its easy to exploit the intellectual works without paying any royalties or compensation to the owner of the work. It encourages enterprise and creates a favorable climate which in a way stimulates economic activity.