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How to copyright a video

If you have questions about copyrighting your video in the United States, click on the following link: http://www.copyright.gov/faq.html.
If you have questions about copyrighting your video Internationally, click on the following link: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl100.html.
Although not required, the U.S. Copyright Office recommends that you put your video copyright notice in the video as part of the video itself to prevent the claim of "innocent copyright infringement" in case someone infringes your copyright.
Hint: Notice the copyright notice at the bottom of this web page for the "magic lawyer words" that the webmaster's lawyer told him to use for a copyright notice. Notice a copyright notice is part of every separate page of this website.
If your video is not a "work made for hire", the U.S. Copyright Office recommends that you obtain a typed written signed release(s) in advance of creating the video to assign copyright rights from the author(s) of the work to the party commissioning the creation of the work to prevent legal counter claims to ownership of the copyrighted work or limitations to use of the copyrighted work. If the author of the work is a minor, the contract is usually co-signed by a parent or guardian.
Notice the webmaster is an employee of Disc & Tape Inc, not a freelancer or an independent contractor, not a minor, and Disc & Tape Inc commissioned the webmaster to create this web site, therefore this web site is a "work made for hire".
Notice that in motion pictures that you rent that it is customary to give credit to authors of copyrightable works who have assigned their copyright rights to the person who commissioned the work. Notice that these credits as well as the copyright notice of the motion picture company usually come at the end of the motion picture.
Disc & Tape Inc, DSK8™, and Discontent™ and its employees are NOT lawyers and therefore are PROHIBITED by law from giving legal advice. If you have further legal questions about copyrighting your video, the legal format of a copyright notice, whether or not your video is a "work made for hire", whether or not the author(s) of your videos are minors, or the legal format of a contract for total assignment of copyright rights, please consult an attorney licensed to practice in your state.
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