I’ve designed a toy I’d like to see about being protected by copyright, but I don’t know how to go about it, and looking things up has just left me with more questions than answers. I’m from Canada, if that helps.
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Copyright is an automatic right. Everyone have exclusive rights to copy their own work as soon as they create it. In the very early days of copyright laws there were some registration requirements but this quickly fell out of favor as it was impossible to manage. The copyright notices you see with the name of the copyright holder and the date is a practice from this time but is now just included as a courtesy.
The other types of intellectual property rights, patents and trademarks, do still have application and registration requirements. This is handled by the patent office. So you should look to them for registering your intellectual property and possibly contact a lawyer specializing in this.
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