How Do You Protect The Copyright Of A TV Show Or Movie?
• Seek legal advice from a copyright attorney. Copyright attorneys are well versed in how to establish and protect copyright. • The following information is for someone who created a television show or movie as a personal effort. Copyright law states “works for hire” allocates copyright to the employer and not the employee. The television show or movie should meet the at least one of the following requirements:[1] • To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords; • To prepare derivative works based upon the work; • To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; • To publicly perform the work, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works; • To publicly display the work, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individu
