If a make a movie can i obtain a copyright so i can earn cash when somebody watches it on youtube?

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1. You already have a copyright on it by virtue of you having made it. 2. No, you can't do that. You're not important at all. Seriously, that's the actual reason. You mean NOTHING, and so you can't just charge for it. You have to follow YouTube's procedure to become a partner and get ad revenue. But for the civilized world (the people with AdBlock and Ghostery, like me), we'll never see your ads anyway.

Three ways to get cash from your automatically copyrighted film: sell licenses to people so they can perform, copy, distribute it for you (and pay you royalties); post it someplace where there is an existing agreement that gives you "revenue" based upon the film's popularity (i.e., YouTube partner); register the copyright in the US Copyright Office and sue people who steal your movie without obtaining a license and any website operator who refuses to remove it when you ask them to. The latter will cost you money up front (to file and pursue a federal lawsuit), but the registration fee is minimal and goes a long way toward "negotiation" with reluctant "customers." Fourth way: you could sell the complete copyright to someone who can do these things for themselves, but you only get the initial payout.