Trademarks

Trademarks

1. It is a set of legal norms and principles that affirm the moral and economic rights that the law grants to authors

   • for the simple fact of creating a literary, artistic, musical, scientific or didactic work, whether published or unpublished.
   • Copyright legislation in the West begins in 1710 with the Statute of Queen Anne.
   • It is recognized that copyright is one of the fundamental human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.1
   • A work goes into the public domain when the economic rights have expired.
     • This usually happens after a period from the author's death.
     • The minimum term, worldwide, is 50 years and is established in the Berne Convention.
       • Copyright constitute two conceptions of literary and artistic property. The first comes from the family of continental law, particularly from French law, while the second comes from Anglo-Saxon law
       • Copyright is based on the idea of a personal right of the author, founded on a form of identity between the author and his creation. The moral right is constituted as emanation of the person of the author: recognizes that the work is an expression of the person of the author and thus is protected.
         • Scope
           • Copyright protection covers only the expression of a content, but not the ideas. For its birth it does not need any formality, that is, it does not require registration in a register or the deposit of copies, the copyright is born with the creation of the work.
           • The original works of the literary, artistic and scientific field are protected, whatever their form of expression, support or medium
         • The copyright holder enjoys exclusive rights with respect to:
           • Reproduce the work in copies or phonograms
           • Prepare derivative works based on the work
           • Distribute copies or phonograms of the work to the public by selling them or making other types of property transfers such as renting, leasing or lending such copies.
   • Copyright Classes
     • Patrimonial rights:
       • On those who exclusively allow the exploitation of the work until a term counted from the death of the last of the authors, later they become part of the public domain and anyone can exploit the work.
     • Moral rights:
       • are those linked to the author permanently and are inalienable and imprescriptible
         • Translation rights:
           • To reproduce and publish a translated work, you must request permission from the owner of the work in the original language.
     • Reproduction Rights:
       • It is a legal basis that allows the author of the work to prevent third parties from making copies or reproductions of their works
         • Public communication right:
           • right by virtue of which the author or any other rights holder may authorize a live or live performance or performance of his work, such as the representation of a play or the performance of a symphony by an orchestra in a concert hall. When phonograms are disseminated through an amplifier in a public place, such as a disco, an airplane or a shopping center, they are also subject to this right
   • In Colombia, the regular entity is called: National Copyright Office belonging to the Ministry of Interior
     • to make the registration The process is physical or online, it lasts fifteen (15) business days from the day after the request was filed in our offices, it has no cost and you can download the registration of your work from your user account.