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What Is Copyright?

Copyright is a legal term that describes the rights granted to creators over their literary and artistic works, which range from books, music, paintings, sculptures, and films to computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps, and technical drawings, protecting authors, artists, performers, broadcasters, and producers of phonograms.

Registration categories

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Literary Works: any creative work expressed in written form, including books, articles, lectures, and literary works

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Musical Works: written or recorded musical compositions

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Audiovisual Works: a creative work expressed through associated images, with or without incorporated sound, intended for broadcast

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Radio Plays: produced for broadcast on radio or television

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Visual Artworks: drawings, paintings, architectural works, engravings, lithographs, illustrations, maps, plans, visual artworks, geographical sketches, topographical sketches

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Theatrical or Dramatic Works: works in which the movements on stage are described by any means, whether of a dramatic or dramatic-musical nature, including choreographies, pantomimes, or plays

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Computer Science and Database Program: is a set of detailed, sequential instructions that a computer, piece of technology, or application executes to perform a specific task or function

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Recordings: is the recording of sound and artistic works, for reproduction and dissemination to the public, in disc formats

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Documents and Contracts: any action that could alter the use of the work.

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Artistic Interpretations and Performances: any artistic activity involving the performance of a role, such as singing, reading, reciting, or performing a literary, artistic, dramatic, musical-dramatic, musical, or choreographic work for public performance

They are not subject to registration

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The texts of laws, public treaties, official regulations, decrees, official decisions, and other official acts, as they are in the public domain pursuant to Article 4 of the Copyright Act

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Mathematical procedures

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Ideas in and of themselves, ideological or technical content

Beneficios de certificar tu obra

1.- Protects la creación intelectual contra el plagio, la usurpación o alteraciones que afecten los derechos morales y patrimoniales del autor sin su autorización expresa.

2.- Allows al titular actuar (respaldado por una prueba legal de autoría y fecha cierta) ante cualquier instancia del Estado contra cualquier tercero que, sin su consentimiento, use, reproduzca o modifique la obra protegida.

3.- Prevents que cualquier tercero distribuya, comercialice, comunique públicamente o explote económicamente la obra protegida sin su autorización.

4.- Facilita la negociación legítima frente a terceros (editoriales, productoras o plataformas) para otorgar licencias, ceder derechos y garantizar la correcta percepción de regalías y el resguardo de su patrimonio.

Term of Copyright

In accordance with Article 25 of the Copyright Act, copyright arises upon the creation of the work, lasts for the lifetime of the author or co-authors, and expires sixty (60) years after January 1 of the year following their death, even with respect to works that were not published during their lifetime.

Moral Rights

They are characterized by being inalienable and cannot be transferred. They recognize the personal relationship between the author and the work. They protect reputation and identity, and have no time limit.

  • Fatherhood and Motherhood: It is the author's inalienable right to be recognized as such, requiring that their name or pseudonym be mentioned in any communication or reproduction of the work, or to remain anonymous, if they so choose.
  • Disclosure: is the author's exclusive right to decide whether his or her work should be made available to the public for the first time, and in what form or under what conditions.
  • Integrity: grants the author the right to object to any distortion, mutilation, or modification of their work that could harm their honor or reputation, ensuring respect for its original form
  • Modification or variation: It is the author's right to make changes, revisions, or improvements to their previously published work, reflecting their ongoing artistic or scientific development.
  • Pickup from the store: allows the author, for justified reasons of moral or intellectual conviction, to withdraw their work from the market or suspend its exploitation, even if they have already transferred the economic rights to a third party (who must be compensated for any damages).

Economic Rights

These rights may be held by a natural person or a legal entity. Their purpose is to generate economic benefit from the exploitation of the work, which the author may carry out directly or by transferring their economic rights to third parties.

Consequently, any use of the work by a third party requires the express authorization of the author or the rights holder, who retains the right to permit or prohibit any use of the work without their consent.

  • Reproduction: the right of the copyright owner to produce or authorize the production of copies or reproductions of the protected work.
  • Adaptation or transformation: the right to authorize the adaptation, modification, translation, or musical arrangement of a work, resulting in a derivative work.
  • Publication: the right to authorize the distribution of the work, including the production of copies for public distribution.
  • Distribution: the right to authorize the first distribution to the public of copies of a work through their sale and marketing.
  • Communication, interpretation, and public performance: recognizes the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit any public communication of the work; any act by which the work is made available to the public without the distribution of copies.

Related Rights

  • They are closely related to copyright. They arise from and are derived from the original work, protecting the legal interests of those who contribute to making the works available to the public.
  • A performing artist has the exclusive (economic) right to authorize the fixation, reproduction, or communication of his or her performance, with the sole exception of recordings already commercially released with his or her consent. In addition, he or she enjoys the moral right to be identified and to object to any distortion of his or her performance that damages his or her reputation.
  • A phonogram producer has the exclusive right to authorize the reproduction, importation, distribution, and rental of its phonograms.
  • Producers of phonograms have the right to receive remuneration for the communication of the phonogram to the public.
  • Broadcasters have the exclusive right to authorize or refuse the fixation, reproduction, and retransmission of their broadcasts.
How Do You Register Your Copyright?
Collective Management Organizations (EGC)
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Collective Management Organizations are nonprofit civil associations that are strictly authorized, regulated, and inspected by the government through the National Copyright Office of the SAPI. These organizations are responsible for centrally managing the economic rights of authors within the same profession, which involves representing their commercial interests, collecting royalties for the public use of their repertoire, granting licenses to third parties, and, finally, distributing the collected revenue among all their members.

There are two authorized collective management organizations:

  • Society of Authors and Composers of Venezuela (Sacven)
  • Venezuelan Association of Performers and Phonogram Producers (Avinpro)

Tarifas y cuentas bancarias
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Guide to the Copyright Certification Process
Frequently Asked Questions

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