Having a registration makes it easier enforcing copyright and other related rights, allowing authors to clearly establish authorship and/or ownership. Registration can also help to delimit the free use and public domain to claim damages for the unauthorized use of the Works.

In order to get the best protection of all Works ALVAREZ DELUCIO provides the following services:

– Fast registration. – available to register all kind of Works in 24 hours.
– Software registration
– Artistic and literary work registration
– Registration of manuals, catalogs and advertising materials
– Registration of Copyright contracts
– Copyright infringement lawsuits
– Assistance in copyright license agreements

Mexican Copyright Law provides protection to the Artistic and literary Works during all Author’s life plus 100 years after his/her death date.

To start an Infringement Copyright lawsuit, it is necessary that the Work was previously registered at the Mexican Copyright Registry.

Copyright contracts have to be recorded in order to take effects before third parties and to resolve conflicts between the Parties easier.

Works protected by the copyright law are books, music, paintings, sculpture and films, computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps and drawings, among others, according to the Bern Convention, WIPO Copyright Treaty, and others treaties.

Reservation of Rights of Exclusive Use is a Mexican legal figure to recognize rights on:

– Artistic Names. – granted for five (5) years and renewable for equal terms – granted for five (5) years and renewable for equal terms.
– Names of Radio and TV Shows. – granted for five (1) years and renewable for equal terms.
– Names of Magazines and Publications. – granted for one (1) year and renewable for equal terms.

For renewal purposes, it is necessary to prove the effective use in Mexico.