Do I need to incorporate inorder to copyright material?

**BusinessAdviser** · 02-20-2009 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by AI87

Yea this is all pretty much new to me. I wasn't looking into having shareholders or anything unless you can be your own and only shareholder. I'd pretty much be running this on my own, but I believe that there are more advantages of doing some kind of corporation instead of a sole proprietor, but then again I'm new to this

Look into an LLC. Think you'll be interested.

**AI87** · 02-23-2009 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by BusinessAdviser

Disagree.

First, copyright law has been around for a while. As soon as you write something down or create some other type of copyrightable material, you own the copyright to it. Paying for the copyright puts the nation on notice that you're the copyright owner, so no one can claim original authorship of the material subsequent to that date, even if it was original. However, the copyright was already created, regardless of registration.

Now if I write something and someone else takes it and uses it. Can that person legally take legal action against me?