COPYRIGHT

COPYRIGHT

1. Copyright is a form of IP designed to protect the rights of a creator of literary and artistic works, computer programs and databases. It does not provide protection for the ideas, concepts or inventions in these works per se. Rather, it protects the author’s or creator’s ‘expression’ of the ideas and concepts and determines the rights of ownership and use of works falling within the copyright.

   • REQUIREMENTS AND RATES
     • 1.- Go to the Ministry of Public Education, through the National Copyright Institute.
     • 2.- Carry out a search for priorities, with the purpose of verifying in the database if there is already a similar or confusing background to the sign you intend to register. This will allow you to save expenses and have greater assurance that your request will proceed.
     • 3.- Submit the corresponding registration applications, which can be submitted directly by the interested party or through a legal representative.
     • 4.- Present the necessary forms and documents.
     • 5.- Payment of fees:
       • - Search for priorities: $ 80.00
       • - Registration of the work: $ 131.00.
       • - Registration of documents: from $ 400 to 1,000, depending on the document.

2. REGISTRATION PROCESS

   • Telematic Registration
     • Step 1: Have a digital certificate.
     • Step 2: Access the website of the Ministry and choose the Autonomous Community in which the registration will take place.
     • Step 3: Submit the application, fill out the required forms and attach the file containing the creation.
     • Step 4: Pay the corresponding fee and digitally sign the application.
     • Step 5: Download a copy of the application in pdf format.
     • Once the previous procedures have been completed, the “file consultation” service will be enabled, from which communications will be sent on the occasion of the request and future documents may be provided.
       • The maximum period for the resolution of the request will be six months, from the date of entry of said request, as marked by art. 24.1 of the Registry Regulations. After this period, without an express resolution having been issued, the request will be considered estimated.
   • Face-to-face registration
     • Step 1: Go to any Territorial Registry or Delegated Offices or to the Provincial Offices of the Central Registry. In the Autonomous Communities of Madrid, La Rioja, Asturias and Murcia it is presented at the headquarters of the Territorial Registry.
     • Step 2: Fill in the application and accompany it with the copy of the work to be registered.
     • Step 3: Pay the corresponding fee.
     • The effects of this registration are immediate from the date of receipt of the request by the Registry.

3. Grupo: 212032

   • Fernando Marquez

4. Copyright allows the creators to control the use and exploitation of their works, and derivative works thereof, and covers the copying, adapting, publishing, performing and broadcasting of such works.

   • Entity in charge
     • The National Copyright Directorate is currently located in the City of Bogotá D.C., Colombia