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Copyrights regestration
Legal protection of copyright is an integral part of planning when organizing activities in almost any area of business. If necessary, in any original work of the author, you can find elements that fall under protection in accordance with generally applicable copyright laws, for this reason, the Law&Trust International team offers its services for their formal protection and strongly recommends considering the possibility of registering these rights to increase the overall level of prestige and mitigate the risks of your business.
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What can be registered?
In order to provide a more complete understanding of what intellectual property objects you have the opportunity to register, we attach the following list of works that are available in one form or another for copyright registration in the vast majority of the modern jurisdictions:
- literary works, including scripts, texts of educational lectures and program codes;
- dramatic works - theatrical productions;
- choreographic works, pantomime;
- musical works with or without lyrics;
- recordings containing audio-visual works;
- works of fine art - paintings, sculptures, graphics;
- works of applied art;
- architectural works;
- photography, cinematographic works.
At the same time, the works indicated in this list are fairly general examples of works, under which, if necessary, the overwhelming majority of works created in the course of doing business and duly meeting the requirement for originality can be placed.
Who might benefit from this?
Formal registration of your copyright shall become a priority task is a if you are engaged in:
- development of mobile or computer applications and software;
- creation of unique content as a designer, artist, video blogger, writer, journalist or content creator;
- or if you want to increase the value of your business, optimize your taxes or get an additional way to earn money and protect your rights.
Copyright protection
As a general rule, copyright exists from the moment the work is created by the author, and does not require registration in the vast majority of countries to remain legally enforceable. However, the absence of further work on formal declaration of one's copyright can lead to significant difficulties if it becomes necessary to transfer copyright rights under a license or to start the procedure for their legal protection. Confirming the status of the author of a particular work after a certain amount of time has passed can be difficult if the rights were not registered in advance, due to the need to confirm the exact dates of creation of the work, its first publication in a specific jurisdiction, the actual status of the author of the work.
In order to avoid such problems in the future and ensure the most comfortable and productive business for our Clients, we offer our services for copyright registration.
Where can I register copyright rights?
Unfortunately, not all countries in the world offer convenient methods for formal registration of your copyright rights; in some, this can only be done through commercial companies engaged in preserving copyrights; in others - it cannot be registered at all.
The most attractive jurisdictions for copyright registration are the following countries:
- USA
- UAE
- Individual countries of the European Union
- Canada
- Malaysia
- South Africa
Depending on the jurisdiction, registration is carried out either by government agencies following the procedure, similar to the registration of rights to other intellectual property objects, or by depositing the object in the databases of private organizations involved in the collection and storage of IP property.
How can we help?
Our work on copyright registration includes the study and analysis of the Client's case in order to identify a list of intellectual property objects, the rights to which can be registered, the selection of the optimal format of work for this case, the determination of the registration authority in accordance with the nature of the work and the jurisdiction of the Client, and the subsequent procedure for registering these rights.
This process can play a key role for the widest range of activities of our Clients, we can provide an example of a blogger creating original video content or publishing articles on his channel, an IT company developing gaming or financial software, a photographer maintaining his account on social networks, or the owner of a website for studying foreign languages - an integral part of conducting all of the listed activities is the creation of unique content that falls under protection in accordance with the applicable copyright law, and provides its creators with the opportunity to register it.
