copyright

copyright

1. What is copyright?

   • It is the set of rules that protect the author as the creator of a work in the literary and artistic field, understood as any human expression product of ingenuity and talent that is materialized in any way perceptible by the senses and in an original way.

2. What is needed to have copyright protection?

   • The protection granted to the author is born from the moment he creates the work, without it being required to comply with any legal formality, that is, that the exercise and enjoyment of an author's right over his work is not conditioned on That the work be registered. In sum, with the sole expression of the author in the literary or artistic field, the work is protected against any form of use or exploitation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, copyright registration is an important means of proof.

3. What protects copyright?

   • The copyright protects the literary, scientific and artistic works, without entering to value the quality, thematic or destination of the same. Ideas, methods or procedures are not protected, but their concrete form embodied in languages, annotations, recordings or materials that allow their reproduction.
     • Artistic: Are those that impact the aesthetic sense of those who contemplate them (LIPSZYC, Delia page 77 of its Copyright Manual, CERLALC / UNESCO / ZAVALÍA, 1993) example: photographs, sculptures, paintings, among others.
     • Literary: Those that are expressed by any form of language such as novels, stories, teaching and scientific texts, computer programs (software), poems, among others.

4. How do you register a work?

   • Well, first of all, you must choose the means by which we want to register. Regardless of whether it is face-to-face or virtual, the author must go to www.derechodeautor.gov.co and download the forms that correspond to the category of the work. Additionally, if it is chosen to do so through the face-to-face modality, it is required that the author (s) be present at the DNDA, located in the city of Bogotá, street 28 # 13 A -15 Floor 17, accompanied by a copy of the physical supports necessary for the registration of the work. As for the virtual mode on the page, in which the forms are located, there are all the indications.

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