How to sign up your songs for copyrights

[Dakoom]

Here in Italy we have the SIAE:

SIAE ([SIAE] Societ Italiana degli Autori ed Editori)

SIAE is a point of reference for authors and publishers, as well as for those who operate in the entertainment industry. A society (in the language adopted by author’s societies it is often referred to as a “multi-purpose society”) that issues thousands and thousands of licenses for the uses of each work, thus facilitating the payment of royalties by the users and protecting the authors’ works.
Authors, publishers, and other rightholders adhere voluntarily in order to economically protect their works.
SIAE’s Headquarters is located in Rome, at Viale della Letteratura n. 30 (tel. 06/59901, fax 06/59647050-52).
Siae is represented in Italy with 13 regional offices, 34 branch offices and over 600 agents.

.. where we pay for signing up and copyright our songs. You, in your nation, what do you have?

[whomper]

library of congress
handles our copyright registration
special website: U.S. Copyright Office

govt info distributer has intro
FCIC: Copyright Basics

everything is copyrighted from the moment it is fixed in a medium
registration gives additional legal rights for recovery of damages

wikipedia has links to many countries
Copyright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Dakoom]

Thank you for the info, whomper.

[TonyB]

I do all mine online. It's great for SR.

U.S. Copyright Office - Online Services (eCO: Electronic Copyright Office)