Member of Berne Convention:

Yes.

Filing Requirements:

1. Power of attorney, legalized.

2. Copy of registration form.

3. Copy of corresponding home or foreign registration certificate.

4. An original and 2 copies of the work of art.

5. Additional supporting material such as CDs, Video tapes, scenario of the play to be registered, and/or any other relevant material.

Registration Time Frame:

The approximate time frame for completing the registration process is 7 working days.

Duration:

Duration in general is the author's life plus 50 years following the author's date of death.

Works Protected:

Books, booklets, articles, bulletins and any other written works; Computer programs; Databases, whether readable by computer or otherwise; Lectures, speeches, sermons and any other oral works when recorded; Dramatic and dramatico-musical works, and pantomimes; Musical works with or without words; Audiovisual works; Works of architecture; Works of drawings with lines or colors, sculpture, lithography, printing on textile and any other similar works of fine arts; Photographic and similar works; Works of applied and plastic arts; Illustrations. maps, sketches and three-dimensional works relating to geography, topography or architectural designs; Derivative works, without prejudice to the protection prescribed for the works from which they have been derived.

Limitations on Protection:

Official documents, whatever their source or target language, such as laws, regulations, resolutions and decisions, international conventions, court decisions, award of arbitrators and decisions of administrative committees having judicial competence; News on current events which are mere press information.

Penalties:

Penalties include payment of fines of up to 10,000 Pounds (around 1,800 US Dollars) as well as legal prosecution resulting in a maximum of 1 month imprisonment terms.