Does Anyone Out At That Topographic Point Know Of ...

... Copyrightvault.com?

While looking for something completely different, the IPKat stumbled across the website of an arrangement calling itself Copyrightvault.com. This enterprise offers, for a fee, to register receipt of industrial plant together with to shop them for 5 years together with therefore that they tin hold upward said to hold upward inwards existence at a specific indicate of time. As the site says:

"Difficulties arise where each political party claims to convey produced the piece of job earlier the other together with thereby hold upward the originator of the work. Attempting to resolve such disputes may involve legal proceedings. It is ultimately a affair for the courts to decide. Without independent evidence a courtroom volition convey to rely upon the rather to a greater extent than subjective evidence of the parties.

This is where copyright registration is important. The registration of copyright provides independent witness equally to the existence of the work, at a clear indicate inwards time. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Certificate of Registration is unremarkably sufficient evidence. However, inwards the lawsuit that farther evidence is required, copyright registration should, in i lawsuit once to a greater extent than hold upward able to render this, inwards the flat of a sworn affidavit.

At Copyrightvault.com, nosotros would recommend withdrawing a re-create of your registered piece of job from the vault together with arranging for a Director of Copyrightvault Ltd to swear an affidavit inwards front end of a solicitor, at the fourth dimension of withdrawal, confirming the appointment of registration, together with the appointment of withdrawal of the work, together with exhibiting the Certificate of Registration".

The FAQs concede that registration of a piece of job is non a prerequisite for copyright protection:

"Does copyright convey to hold upward registered?

No, copyright does non convey to hold upward registered. However inwards the lawsuit of a dispute, a successful number volition depend on proving ownership together with content of the piece of job at a exceptional indicate inwards time. Registration proves that on a sure enough appointment yous deposited the registered item alongside an independent witness agent, Copyrightvault.com, who specialise inwards the secure storage of copyright material, together with who are willing to swear an affidavit that the item cannot convey been interfered alongside past times whatever interested party".

This respond does non brand the IPKat real happy. This is partly because the Copyright, Designs together with Patents Act 1988 contains a number of presumptions (see e.g. sections 104, 105) that are real rarely challenged together with partly because the deposit or registration of a piece of job does non inwards whatever lawsuit flora "proving ownership", or indeed authorship.

The website likewise offers to position users inwards touching on alongside a fellow member of its panel of (unnamed) solicitors, each of whom volition patently render 10 minutes advice gratis of accuse if yous consummate the query flat together with mail it dorsum to Copyrightvault.com (if yous click whatever of the zones into which a map of the British Isles is divided, inwards the promise of obtaining a listing of names of local solicitors, yous volition have a "coming soon" message - only goose egg more).

The Copyrightvault.com site is linked from the Department of Trade together with Industry's Businesslink pages, which suggests that it has unopen to official approval. It's likewise linked to a site called Copy Right Notice that bears the bizarre kitty-lit message:

"Definition of a re-create correct notice is the patents are concerned alongside the technical together with functional aspects of products together with processes".

wonders, convey whatever of his readers had whatever experiences of Copyrightvault.com that they tin part alongside him? He can't assist beingness a lilliputian suspicious together with would welcome anything that puts his heed to rest. Merpel adds, Coyprightvault.com would likely ask to have quite a book of line concern to brand the whole do worthwhile. And if it's profitable, she'd await unopen to serious competition.