Traditional Intellectual Property: COPYRIGHTS

Traditional Intellectual Property: COPYRIGHTS

1. Copyright is a set of legal norms and principles that protect the moral and exploitation rights of the creators of literary, musical, artistic, scientific or didactic works.

2. The protection that Colombian law grants to Copyright is carried out on all the ways in which ideas can be expressed, does not require any registration and endures throughout the author's life, plus 80 years after his death, after which It becomes public domain. The registration of the work before the National Directorate of Copyright is only intended to provide greater security to the right holders.

   • Its main office is in the city of Bogota, capital of the country.

3. Rights granted by Copyright

   • Reproduction Rights. Related Rights Public Communication Rights. Translation Rights.

4. Requirements to register Copyright

   • The name, nationality, identification and residence document habitual of the author or authors of the work
   • Title of the work
   • Indicate if the work is unpublished or edited, original or derived, individual or collective, in collaboration, a translation, and in general any character that can report
   • Year of creation
   • In the event of registering an owner of the economic rights different from the author, his name or company name must be mentioned, according to the case, accrediting the document by which he acquired such rights.

5. Registration process

   • Download the registration form
   • Fill out the form and submit it at the offices of the National Copyright Directorate -DNDA-, located in the city of Bogotá
   • Attach a copy of the work on CD or DVD (No printed works are received) to the registration form
   • The procedure, whether physical or online, lasts fifteen (15) business days from the day after the request was filed in the offices
   • You can also register through the mail or do it online

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