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.

2. 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.

3. Copyright typically is enforced to prevent copying, plagiarism, and misuse of a work, but it does not prevent a third party from independent development of the idea or a similar work

4. copyright does not require any formal application or registration for protection of a creative work

5. Typical works covered by copyright are:

   • original literary,
   • dramatic,
   • musical and artistic works
   • published editions of works
   • sound recordings,
   • films
   • videos
   • broadcasts and cable programmes
   • computer programs and databases.

6. there are international treaties that deal with copyright and to which most countries have signed up, notably the Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works, and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). The Berne Convention of 1886 is the oldest international treaty governing the protection of copyright.

7. The most recent international agreement is the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) of 1996, under which protection of works transmitted by digital means, including the Internet, has been provided for.

8. Each country has its own laws for the protection of IP, which include copyright laws.

9. In most countries for asserting copyright in a work, it is advisable that a work be marked with the international © mark, followed by the name of the copyright owner and the year of publication

10. The rights covered by copyright can be divided

    • economic rights
      • Are those rights dealing with the ownership, use and exploitation of the work covered by the copyright.
    • moral rights.
      • Are the rights of the author of the work to be identified as the author, as well as to object to any derogatory treatment of the work, even if the author is not ultimately the owner of the work.

11. Within the EU and in most of the European region, as well as in the US, generally the duration of copyright today for literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, computer programs and databases, begins with the date of creation by the author and expires 70 years after his death

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13. The National Copyright Directorate is a state agency Colombian, which has the legal structure of a Unit Special Administrative attached to the Ministry of Interior and Justice

14. To register your works through the Internet for the first time, you must first make a pre-registration by entering the following link: Online registration where you must create your user account, for which you only need to fill out a form with your data and create a name username and password which are personal (just as you would when you open an email account). The procedure, whether physical or online, lasts fifteen (15) business days from the day after the request was filed in our offices, has no cost and you can download the registration of your work from your account usury You should keep in mind that Online Registration is only enabled for Colombian citizens; citizens of different nationality can do it in person at our headquarter