When companies and developers create a mobile application or other type of software, they will generally ask themselves what protection should be provided for the creation. The answer to that is that the contracts and terms and conditions made with users or clients are not always sufficient. Indeed, there is a way to protect the work from the entire society: software registration.
The owner of an intellectual work enjoys the exclusivity of the right to exploit it, use it, reproduce it, license it, commercialize it, or carry out any other commercial activity. With few legal exceptions, he disposes of it commercially and prevents its use or access by any other person without his permission.
Risks of not registering it
In the case of software, it is required to complete a form, pay a fee, and send the source code and/or object code so that it is deposited and protected. What are the consequences in our country of not properly registering a work? The law establishes that the rights of authors will be suspended until they complete the corresponding registration. It means that the commercial exploitation of the work will not be an exclusive power of its author but that any interested party could use it, given that it will be in the public domain. Once registration has been carried out, the owner will acquire the power to claim his rights from the date of said registration.
The benefits
Software registration constitutes the main proof of ownership in the event of a dispute. If two people or companies are disputing the authorship of a program, a request for a report from “the National Copyright Directorate” will resolve the issue and will presume ownership to whoever previously registered the source code. Therefore, the speed with which the registration is done is of vital importance.
Logically, and despite what has been said, these issues must always be judged in the light of good faith. The uses that have been given to the software in the period in which it was not registered will be validated to the extent that it is not proven that the user really knew who the true author was. That is to say, if a work was used knowing who the owner was, that is, in bad faith, the person must be held accountable for it even if it was not duly registered.
Nimonik can help
On a practical level, legal registration software helps any software creator, be it an organization, company, or individual to register their software in accordance with the applicable laws and legal requirements. There are many legal register software providers and when we talk about copyright registration in the North American region, we can’t leave Nimonik inc. out of the list.
Nimonik is a legal register software provider with the most comprehensive library of regulations, standards, and laws in the world. The library covers a wide range of business sectors, including automotive, consulting services, mining, metal processing, and oil & gas.
Nimonik is a popular compliance software development company in the world, especially in the North American region. Based in Canada with offices in China and the United States, Nimonik has long been a go-to for organizations and companies to help them manage compliance and everything related to software legality registration. Nimonik’s big name is a guarantee of the quality of its services and so far the company has been trusted by big names such as Dura-line, Media Logic, and APR Energy.
With the help of Nimonik, all matters concerning software legalization in the eyes of the law can be managed more purposefully and significantly reduce the risks of two or more overlapping copyrights.
