Protect your work
Copyright registration with Copyright Witness is the fast, effective and low cost way to protect your work from infringement and misuse - ensuring you always have the best evidence to protect your work and your rights.
Trusted by thousands of creative organisations and individuals across the world, the service supports international copyright protection by securing independent evidence that will help prove originality and ownership in future claims or disputes.
The registration centre contains forms needed to register your work or manage existing registrations and accounts, plus information about the service and advice on registering your work.
Learn about copyright
One of the principal goals of Copyright Witness is to educate, inform and raise awareness of intellectual property issues.
Our information and education centre has help pages and factsheets covering a wide range of intellectual property topics, including:
- Copyright law and international conventions
- Advice on how to protect your work
- How to use copyright notices
- How to deal with copyright infringement and plagiarism
- Specific advice for writers, musicians, artists, web designers, etc.
Solicitor, agent, publisher?
Advice for solicitors and other agents registering work on behalf of their clients.
Free educational factsheets
Reprintable pack for educational establishments, libraries advice centres and other non-commercial organisations.
Download the free factsheet pack
The cost of copyright infringement
The IIPA estimated worldwide trade losses for 2008 due to piracy was 18.4 billion USD.
Source: IIPA February 17th 2009 http://www.iipa.com
Free IP courses
The British Library Business and IP Centre now provide free online courses on intellectual property.
