JIPO creating formal copyright registration system - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | December 30, 2012

JIPO creating formal copyright registration system - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | December 30, 2012: "The Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) is moving to put in place a formal voluntary copyright registration system which the agency said will give further protection to creators of literary, artistic, musical and dramatic works.

"Copyright has no formal registration system except where we inform people to place the material in an envelope and register it in a mail," said Carol Simpson, executive director of JIPO.

"So with creators always producing new materials and the commercialisation of it, we have moved towards development of this voluntary system of copyright registration," she told Sunday Business.

Under the registration system, creators can register material at a fee - the amount is still to be determined.

While Simpson did not disclose the storage capacity of the system, she said it is totally digital and would complement the National Library system whereby, under the Legal Deposit Act, it is mandatory for creators to deposit a copy of their material as a record of Jamaica's published heritage and development."

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