Facing the model based on the authority of the registrar, the model started by Safe Creative offers irrefutable proof based on technology
A proof of registration valid by itself, giving autonomy and independence for authors to protect their rights.
Safe Creative improves the registration certificate, transforming it into a technically irrefutable true registration evidence, which validity, based on the technology used, is independent even from Safe Creative.
The Spanish company, which pioneered the Copyright Registration on the Internet offers, starting December 13th, a twofold registration full evidence that together with the original file consists of:
1) The proof of identification and integrity of the work, consisting of a triple fingerprint identification system (MD5, SHA1 and SHA512).
2) An equally strong proof of the date and time at which this work was registered with a separated double time stamp for each work: by a certification authority approved by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, and the certification authority of Safe Creative.
It’s definitely an element of proof of absolute solvency, independent of Safe Creative, which the authors may download or automatically receive to use as evidence of authorship.Safe Creative is defining the digital registration as the most suitable for the Internet, because unlike traditional systems, those are not based on the authority of the entity or person certifying the records, nor depend on them to prove it, but the proof of registration now becomes an indisputable piece of evidence that is necessary for authors to enforce their copyrights in case of plagiarism, misappropriation or misuse.
In the words of Juan Palacio, CEO of Safe Creative: “These changes represent a quantum leap for our users, who increasingly value for their creations the security, autonomy and independence a technology based registration service can provide. In short, a sound system for the digital reality. “
Now you can listen to our speech to the Conference on Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure on Safe Creative Youtube channel. The audio is the simultaneous translation from Spanish to English and it comes from WIPO official webpage.
Safe Creative speaks at WIPO (World Intellectual Copyright Office) important event about private copyright registration services. We have been invited to tell our experience and ideas regards the need to have online private registration services to solve todays and tomorrows creators challenges.
Here some pictures taken at the event:
Maria Pallante head of the US. Copyright Office
Carlos Rubiano opening the panel
Safe Creative en OMPI
Borja Adsuara, Of Counsel, Safe Creative, highlighting some of the main features and proposals of Safe Creative, the leading company committed to create the best solutions for creators to inform about their copyrights and generate legally sustainable authorship evidence in the XXI century:
We’ve simplified the home page with a new design that leads you directly to the basic information about Safe Creative. It is a clearer home with less distractions that provides an easier way to access important information.
We also want to remind you that we have added the USA jurisdiction to our legal services.
This new service will allow Safe Creative users to ask their doubts to legal experts and consult our website’s knowledge database to find information about the jurisdiction of copyright in the United States. This service can be added from any professional or corporate account, or contracted at the same time with these accounts.
The World Intellectual Property Organization is organizing this conference to raise awareness among Member States of the importance of documentation systems and management of copyright in the digital age, as well as to highlight some of the leading private registers nowadays. The event will take place in Geneva during the 13th and 14th October. Borja Adsuara, of counsel of Safe Creative, will attend on behalf of the register.
Safe Creative has been invited by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to the Conference on Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure in Geneva October 13th and 14th to talk about private registries, our vision of interoperability and the challenges of the starting digital era. Safe Creative has collaborated in the survey of Private Copyright Documentation Systems and Practices during the past months. Borja Adsuara, of counsel of Safe Creative, will represent the leader online private registry in the meeting.
As you can read in the official announcement: The Conference on Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure is being organized in the framework of the Development Agenda Thematic Project on Intellectual Property (IP) and the Public Domain. The two day event will bring together representatives of governments, national and international public institutions, academics and other stakeholders involved in the copyright industries to address the increasing importance of copyright documentation and infrastructure. The goal of the conference is to raise the awareness of Member States on the linkage between copyright infrastructure and development and to highlight the complexities underlining a vast variety of key issues, including public registration and legal deposit systems, private documentation systems, online licensing tools and practices and the interrelation between copyright infrastructure and access to knowledge.
Survey of Private Copyright Documentation Systems and Practices.
Private copyright documentation, such as rights management information (RMI) and identifiers, may play a crucial role in building a digital environment in which information related to creative material is easily accessible to users. Uncertainty over the status of works and the broad diversity of rights [accessible] within different territories may constitute additional barriers to the proper licensing of content. In this scenario, identifiers can provide an essential support to the copyright infrastructure. For instance, collective management organizations (CMOs) need to build and maintain databases that contain information related to their associates and the repertoire they represent. In addition, it is also necessary to connect national databases to international projects that allow a greater level of interoperability and data exchange among different CMOs. Finally, the panel will provide an analysis of some of the increasingly important private registries, pointing in particular to their specifications with regard to structure and legal effects.
Copyright law is a set of rights belonging to authors and other rights owners (performers, producers, broadcasters …). Copyright laws provide procedures in cases of infringement of exclusive rights, protection of rights of remuneration, and, in some jurisdictions, provide moral rights. These laws offer protection to the holder of the copyright, whether the rights belong to the author, a third party, or holders of related rights.
In countries that have signed the main international copyright treaties, such as the Berne Convention, the registration in the national copyright services is voluntary. Enrollment in a public registry is not mandatory to acquire a copyright or to obtain the protection that laws grant to authors and other copyright holders. However, registration does serve to protect those rights, since they create a “iuris tantum”: rebuttable presumption of the existence of those declared rights.
Since international copyright treaties do not require formal requirements to protect the authorship and exploitation rights of works (which generally last for the creator’s lifespan plus 70 years), judges will assess all the evidence presented in case of conflict to resolve the competing rights, whether the evidence comes from public records or not.
Therefore, a private copyright registration has the same effctiveness and the advantage of offering evidence of authorship as public registration would in deterring plagiarism – in many cases free of charge – and has the advantage of generating the strongest technology based global evidence, immediately available and transparent online information, which facilitates interaction between rights holders and the users of the works.
Text based in other by Juan Manuel Mielgo García from www.libargo.com with CC by-nc-sa license
Modified and translated by Mario Pena with CC by-nc-sa license
We are happy to announce that we have just launched USA jurisdiction of our legal services in our professional or corporate account or to be added to it if already using any of them.
Adding this service users will be able to propose questions and find answers on issues concerning the rights involved when creating copyrighted works and its uses to and from expert lawyers in this area of the law.
This service allows users to access to our always growing legal support database without limitation. The database contains resolved queries, reports, articles and analysis developed by legal professionals according to the most common or relevant issues that have been and that will keep being proposed.
This service can be purchased at “My Account” – “Professional Services” by purchasing the professional or corporate account. If already having one of these accounts, you might add the new jurisdiction to it.
