A form of intellectual property protection provided by the laws of the United States. Copyright
protection is available for original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible form, whether
published or unpublished. The categories of works that can be protected by copyright laws include
paintings, literary works, live performances, photographs, movies, and software.
TYPES
Literary Work
Artistic Work
Cinematograph Film
Dramatic Work
The dramatic work is also a kind of literary work which includes any piece for recitation, or an
arrangement of performing a play, work of choreographing or dumb show entertainment, a scenic
arrangement or the work of acting based on a fixed writing work. but does not include a
cinematograph film.
Music Work
A musical work is a distinct copyrightable work in itself and does not include lyrics or any sound. The
works of the sound recording are though dependent on music work, but to protect musical work a
separate application must be moved with the musical work. The author of sound recording need to
take permission from the author of music work
Sound Recording
The songs which contain singers voice with or without music, a recorded speech or an audio, or
podcast is the examples of sound recording. This includes any work of recording sound regardless of
its medium or storage. In case the sound recording also has music then permission from the author of
music work must be obtained.
Colombian office in charge of rule the registration of copyrigth:
National Copyright Directorate
The registration process don't
have cost.
A cinematograph is a work of visual recording along with the sound recording accomplished by any
process whether analogous or digital including the video films. It includes visual recording in any
medium and by any method of storing it. By definition, every recorded work with moving
visuals/images will be considered a cinematograph
As per section 2 of the Copyright Act, the copyright in artwork subsists in an original artistic work
comprising of paintings, sculptures, graphics, cartoons, etchings, lithographs, photography, drawings,
plans, maps, diagrams, charts, buildings, models of buildings, moulds and casts for sculptures.
The original creation of literature which may be in any form like work of fiction, biography, technical
books or paper, dramatics, script, thesis, research work, tables, compilation and computer
programmes including computer databases. It can be claimed irrespective of its quality, style or
literary merit.
IIs in presencial form adress: Street 28 # 13ª-15 Floor 17th. Bogota - CO
Complete the form htat you can download in the web page www.derechodeautor.gov.co
Put the neccesaries evidences USB, CD, DVD. This thing don't return.
Create a NEW USER in the link:
http://www.derechodeautor.gov.co/web/guest/suscripcion-a-servicios-informativos1?p_p_id=58&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=2&saveLastPath=0&_58_struts_action=%2Flogin%2Fcreate_account
Choose the work that you want to register
This option is only available to colombian citizens