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		eavc on July 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: They Will Steal Your Idea. They Cannot Steal What ... I'm not intimately familiar with the process, but I was unaware that there was such a thing as copyright applications, let alone working models of something that pertains to copyright.

nitrogen on July 21, 2010 [–]

If by application you mean registration, then yes, it is required for some purposes, at least in the US:

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register

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