[header] How to get intellectual property rights [title] Confirm you are eligible to register the copyright. [step] To register a copyright, you must be the author (or creator) of the work, and it must meet statutory standards of originality. [substeps] Generally, you can register a copyright in any musical, artistic, or literary work that you created. 
One exception is a work-for-hire. If you were paid to create a work for someone else, usually in the scope of your employment, you typically can't claim the copyright in that work.