How is copyright created?
Originality is the primary requirement. For the copyright purpose, the work must require you to have exercised skill or judgment and make some intellectual effort to make it novel and unique to some extent.
In addition to originality, the work that requires for copyright protection has to be concrete and non evanescent, so no copyright in live television broadcast!
The best part about copyright is, once a protectable work is created, its copyright is deemed to exist! In other words, no registration or publication or other action is require. NO COST!
However, you do gain some benefits from registration. If you register your copyrights, it creates a public record of ownership. For example, in the US, you’d better register This is because a copyright owner cannot file a lawsuit to enforce or protect its copyrights until the U.S. Copyright Office has issued a registration.