Generally speaking, copyright does not safeguard all forms of creative ideas or concepts, brief phrases, short word combinations, slogans, plots, methodologies, or factual facts. Only unique creative or literary works are accorded copyright.

Surely, yes. You can send a legal notice to anyone who plagiarizes your original work, and if they fail to respond, you can even bring legal action against them.

No, there is no method to determine whether a third party has copyrighted my work.

A copyright registration may be offered for sale, given as a gift, given away, transferred, or franchised with the author's consent.

Although a mobile application cannot be protected as such, its coding can be legally protected by copyright as a literary work, and other parts of the programme can be registered under various copyright registration procedures, just like website content.

A copyright registration does not protect the titles or names, short words, slogans, or any phrases. Only original literary work can get copyright registration.

Trademark registration protects the brand name, logo the slogan whereas copyright protection is provided to literary works, music, videos, slogans, and artistic contents.

Once obtained copyright registration has a validity of 60 years. In case it is literary, drama, music work the 60-year validity is considered from the death of the author. But in the case of the films, sound recording, photographs the 60 year validity period is considered from the date of publication.

According to the Berne Convention, copyright obtained in India will get the status of foreign workers and the copyright protection is extended to the countries which are signatories to the Berne Convention.

With the consent from the owner of the work, the copyright registration can be sold, transferred, gifted as well as franchised.