provides copyright registration for original works by writers, musicians, artists, designers, software providers, authors, companies, organisations and individuals. Known as Copyright Witness internationally, and the UK Copyright Service in the UK, the service supports international copyright protection by securing independent evidence that will help prove originality and ownership in any future claims or disputes. These rights include Patents, Designs, Trade marks & Copyright.

Copyright registration office. How to protect your work from infringement, plus information on laws, notices, and intellectual property protection.

Formed by a group of people who have an interest in copyright law (whether as legal practitioners, creators of copyright works or as academics). Membership is open to individuals and businesses. Applications are particularly welcome from users and creators of copyright works.

Ireland's reproduction rights organisation. opyright gives the creator the right to prevent others from exploiting the work in various ways, without permission. The form of restricted exploitation include: copying the work; making the work available to the public; distributing the work; renting or lending it (excluding public lending); and translating, arranging or adapting the work.

IDDN (InterDeposit Digital Number) is an open intellectual property rights management system for digital works on the Internet. InterDeposit, an international federation for data-processing and information technologies, set up in Geneva on 10 January 1994, is made up of the various organisations concerned by the protection of intellectual property rights over digital works.

An Australian copyright management company whose role is to provide a bridge between creators and users of copyright material. CAL represents authors, journalists, visual artists, surveyors, photographers and newspaper, magazine and book publishers as their non-exclusive agent to license the copying of their works to the general community.

The Community trade mark offers the advantage of uniform protection in all countries of the European Union on the strength of a single registration procedure with the Office for Harmonization.

The CLA is a non profit-making company that licenses organisations for photocopying and scanning from magazines, books and journals.

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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) administers intellectual property systems in Canada (patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies) and disseminates IP information.

The ultimate copyright portal. Endeavoring to provide real world, practical copyright information for over a decade.

Online copyright registration and archiving. International copyright protection in minutes starting at $3 per 20 MB file! Save time and a lot of money!

An experienced firm of intellectual property agents that specialise in trade mark, design rights and copyright matters. The Trade Marks Bureau look after the intellectual property portfolios of individuals as well as multi-national companies which enables them to get on with running their own business knowing that their valuable intellectual property assets are in safe hands.

Specialises in all aspects of intellectual property, with trademarks and brand protection being a particular strength. RevoMark aim to assist clients in using their intellectual property rights (IPR) to create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage for their business, and have the expertise and infrastructure to ensure the delivery of commercially sound advice of the highest quality.

Conduct a trademark search through tradmarkroom.com to reveal whether your proposed mark is capable of registration. Avoid major problems which are likely to occur with an application for worldwide, UK and EU trademarks.

Commercial solicitors based in London, specialising in the provision of commercial, intellectual property, and technology legal advice and support. JP Mitchell act for creative businesses of all types - from website developers to some of the world's biggest names in e-commerce, publishing and IT.