In order to own a copyright, you must mark it as copyrighted!
Instructions are provided by the Library of Congress. Failure to
follow the copyright laws concerning securing copyright can result in
no ownership at all, and no right to prosecute others for using the
material. This is not the proper forum to provide details, but this
one is so basic and important it needs to be said -- distribution or
showing a work to anybody without having the proper copyright marking
on the item means you lose the right to copyright it! Generally, there
are two steps to securing copyright protection -- mark the item in
accordance with the copyright law, and then secure formal copyright by
filing the item with the copyright office in the Library of Congress.
The first costs nothing, and the second costs a bit.


I think in Finland you don't have to report the copyrighted items to
anywhere. When you have created it and it's individual enough to be
"stand alone" product, it has a copyright. If you want to protect it,
then it's trademark.

Johanna