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.

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. “

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.

Faster and easier than ever! You can already see it on http://www.safecreative.org

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.

Another important news, which demonstrates the seriousness and commitment of Safe Creative to helping all creators to generate strong evidence of authorship, is that Safe Creative is attending, invited by WIPO, to the Conference on Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure.

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.

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.

More information here: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2011/wipo_cr_doc_ge_11/index.html

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.

If you want to know more about the Berne Convention you might visit this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works

Also you might be interested into reading some of the following articles:

Effectiveness in Spain (in Spanish): http://es.safecreative.net/2009/02/24/eficacia-juridica-y-probatoria-de-las-inscripciones-en-el-registro-de-safe-creative/
In Mexico (in Spanish): http://es.safecreative.net/2011/06/06/validez-como-prueba-del-registro-safe-creative-en-mexico/
In Argentina (in Spanish): http://es.safecreative.net/2011/05/16/%C2%BFes-posible-el-registro-de-obras-en-internet-validez-de-safecreative-en-argentina/
In the USA: http://en.safecreative.net/2009/04/06/legal-and-evidential-effectiveness-of-inscriptions-in-safe-creative%e2%80%99s-register/
Register your works in USCO with Safe Creative: http://en.safecreative.net/2011/06/07/register-your-works-in-the-u-s-copyright-office-from-safe-creative/

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

Here more information about rights: http://www.safecreative.org/work/1109270148319

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.