Copyright tradition was established to protect the rights of authors or creator of their original work from being copied by other people. Copyrights associates or credits the creator of a work for a certain period of time and after that the content is made public. The time period of copyright depends on the type of copyright.

Poor man’s copyright was a different and unique way of proving the ownership generally implemented by some poor class of people, especially musicians. In this method, the owner sends his own work as mail to his own mail box or also submits his work to bank or attorney to prove his rights and ownership to avoid the cost of getting it copyrighted in a traditional manner. Though, poor man’s copyright is not identified by the commission it still proves beneficial in some cases and is identified in Britain and Netherlands.