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How do I get International Copyright Protection?

25 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Short advice by Julie Broad explaining that there is no single, universal international copyright registration—protection is determined by each country's laws. The speaker notes many countries follow the Berne Convention (copyright automatic), but emphasizes that in the U.S. statutory damages and attorneys' fees are available only for works registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.

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International copyright protection. Unfortunately, no such thing exists. If you want protection in the us, you need to file in the us. Protection against unauthorized use in a specific country depends on the particular laws of said country. A lot of foreign nations have simple copyright laws, but of course that's not the case in the us. There's also the Berne Convention, which most countries are a part of, and with that, copyright must be automatic. But of course the US doesn't follow that. Even after the US joined, they continued to make statutory damages and attorneys fees only available for registered works.