One of the key purposes of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is to bring copyright laws into the digital age by regulating digital media copyright infringement. As with non-digital assets, an owner of copyrightable material: must include a (c) symbol on their digital work in order to have worldwide protection from reproduction must submit an application for protection to the USPTO. must include a (c) symbol on their digital work in order to be protected from reproduction does not need to include a (c) symbol on their digital work in order to be protected from reproduction