Featured Unseen Beatles film reel. Copyright questions.

this is from from the canadian intellectual property office,
Why register your copyright?
Poems, paintings, plays, stories, songs, software—all are creative works worth protecting.

Generally, your original work is automatically protected by copyright when you create it. However, when you register your copyright, you get a certificate of registration that you can use in court as evidence that you own the protected work.

 

i did this also , with my Kob Webs books, as well as cipo
Poor man's copyright
Poor man's copyright is a method of using registered dating by the postal service, a notary public or other highly trusted source to date intellectual property, thereby helping to establish that the material has been in one's possession since a particular time.

 

I posed them to Bonhams NYC.....she wanted me to MAIL them so they could see them!!!
NO fn way.

 

'Clownfart'!!!

 

Didn't one of the large auctions houses like Christie's or Southerly's sell an unseen Beetles reel a few years ago for decent $$$$?

Editing my post to include this Google link to a recent auction of unseen footage.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Uns...ome..69i57.18004j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

Here is another Google search for researching copyrights.

ttps://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+look+up+a+copyright&oq=How+to+look+up+a+copyright&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.7116j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

If you can't find anything, you should probably contact one of the major auction houses to assist you. If it can be sold, you would probably get the most money in a well publicized auction in a well known auction house.

 

Definitely use an attorney who is well informed on copyright law. Selling the original is not an issue. It's making copies and selling them that would be an issue because you may not have the right to do that.