The right of intellectual property (copyright) is acquired, without formalities, upon completion of the work. The main issue with Copyright is that it is not self-declared. The creator should obtain evidence of possession, in order to claim his rights. This is exactly what CopyrightsWorld ™ can provide to you. Undeniable and solid evidence of possession on a specific date and time.

The sole right to reproduce, use and exploit the work (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, July 1971). Berne Convention, Contracting Parties.

As intellectual work the law defines any original intellectual creation of speech, art or science, expressed in any form, notably written or oral texts, musical compositions, with or without text, drama, with or without music, the choreography and pantomime , audiovisual works, works of art, including drawings, paintings and sculpture, prints and lithographs, architectural works, photographs, works of applied art, illustrations, maps, three-dimensional works referred to geography, topography, architecture or science.

The copyright lasts as long as the author's lifetime plus seventy (70) years after his death, as calculated from January 1st of the year followed the death of the author.

The right of Intellectual property (Copyright) is acquired, without formalities, upon completion of the work (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, July 1971, Berne Convention, Contracting Parties). The main issue with Copyright is that it is not self-declared. The creator should obtain evidence of possession, in order to claim his rights.

COPYRIGHTSWORLD ™ protects your intellectual creations and proves unambiguously that the work was in your possession at a particular date and time in the past.
COPYRIGHTSWORLD ™ is the ultimate online registry service for Intellectual Property (Intellectual Property Registry). It is a multifaceted and multiform testimony that ensures your spiritual work. With the use of technology (timestamp), along with traditional methods (publication), achieves the goal to secure your intellectual property. The challenge is to prove that the work was in your possession in a specific day and time in the past. The testimony should be formal and unequivocal. Thus, if there is no earlier evidence of possession coming from another aspirant, automatically is assumed that you are the creator and owner of the work.

CopyrightsWorld ™ protects you comprehensively and unambiguously.
With your registration to this service, you create a unique digital identity. The identity is then related to every single work you submit to the CopyrightsWorld ™'s service.
When you complete a work submission (eg lyric, poem, photo) you are provided with the following evidence.
Your work is registered electronically with a unique ID, encrypted and stored in two (2) separated secret databases. At the same time its being time-stamped (ie. automatically stores the current date and time of submission). This appears on CopyrightsWorld ™'s server logs and forms the first proof of ownership of the work.

Immediately after, a detailed registration receipt is sent to your mailbox (email). This message is time-stamped by a third party service such as the provider of your email (e.g. Yahoo, Google, AOL). You must keep this message as it provides a 2nd evidence of work possession.

The 3rd and strongest evidence of ownership of the work is provided by the official publication that we offer.
CopyrightsWorld ™ publishes every 45 days, a copyrights related newspaper entitled "Copyrights World". In this publication we include all subscribers' work submissions in a form e.g. Poem entitled "The sky" followed by the whole poem body, and author's digital identity's details. Since the issue is official (a public document) you can refer to it as an evidence of possession (e.g. "Copyrights World", ISSN: 1791-9142, Issue 143, publication date: 14th January 2007).

All this proof of possession is provided by us to you while you enjoy the comfort of your home.

See "How it works" in more detail.

We currently support lyrical work, poetry, photography, visual art, music, video and software.

The whole process of letter submission is legally valid, but it does not secure you while in court for an IP case. There are precedents in which the court has proved that the letter was opened and closed again or it was sent empty in the first place for later use. As a result, this method provides a clue but not evidence.

The notary is always a good complementary option, but it is clearly much more expensive and does not provide you with the triple security that CopyrightsWorld does.

Yes. USA has signed the Berne Convention since 1989, so the same laws apply. You are globally protected and you can publicly declare that protection. You will only need to register your work with the Library of Congress, if you are a US citizen and you wish to obtain statutory damages in case of infringement within the US.

"Copyrights World" publication is the absolute and undeniable proof of ownership of your intellectual work. Read more

The "Certification of Submission" is the badge by which the public identifies that your work is protected by CopyrightsWorld ™. With each submission you receive and it's "Certification of submission" (the code), which can be included on any public display of your work. By clicking on the badge, the visitor/reader will be informed through CopyrightsWorld of the submission of your property in detail(eg date, number, etc.).

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Every time Copyrightsworld makes a new publication (a cdrom every 45 days), we mail the "Publication certificates" to all customers that have submitted a creation to that publication.

Sometimes a customer's address could be filled incorrectly or the post office may fail to deliver the Certificate to the customer.

That's why we created the "Certificate publisher" application. Via this app, you can always get your certificates from within your account and print them out.

Watch how it works, on the following video tutorial.

The COPYRIGHTSWORLD ™ service operates using Credits.

For every Copyright registration 1 credit is required (e.g. for a lyric or a photograph). Credits may be obtained through the "Purchase Credits" application for as low as €0.59, using a credit card, Paypal account or even a bank deposit.

Payments are being processed by the world's trusted leader in online payments, Paypal™. More than 150 million users worldwide use Paypal (certification VeriSign, SSL).

The COPYRIGHTSWORLD ™ is designed with state of the art technologies (WEB 2.0) and uses the latest security protocols.

All information is encrypted and all information is submitted within a highly secure environment.

All financial transactions are conducted with the help of PayPal. PayPal is safely used by more than 150 million users all over the world (certification VeriSign, SSL).

Live Support is an innovative service that CopyrightsWorld™ provides. Through this service you can chat in real time (live) with our support team. A "live support" button is located on all of our pages. Click on it, and one of our representatives will be at your service immediately, or leave us a message. Our representatives will soon contact you.

The process is very simple and the only prerequisite is to know how to use the keyboard and mouse. All you have to do is follow a 4 steps submission wizard. After your log-in to CopyrightsWorld™'s secure environment, select "New IP submission" from the menu on your left.

After your log in, select "Change Password" from the menu on your left.

Below the login form you will find the "Password reminder" link. Click it and you will be asked for your email address. A new password will be generated and sent to your mailbox. For further inquiries you can always contact us.