international copyrights and patents

[BFG]

How would you go about copyrighting/patenting a something internationally, and also how would you look up to see if it had been taken already?

Like a name lets say.

 

[SpookTheHamster]

You mean trademarking.

Copyright is automatic on anything you produce, and you cannot patent a name.

Anyway, you would go here

 

[BFG]

oh sorry - thanks for the help