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1. To declare copyright ownership, you should make your application to the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO). Please view the JIPO office location map and contact details via this JIPO Contacts link.
2. Upon receiving your copyright license, visit the JIPO office to obtain the Declaration of Copyright Ownership/Authorship form. You can also download the form from the JIPO website Application forms link (find “Declaration of Copyright Ownership Authorship Form” under COPYRIGHT).
3. Complete the declaration form in the presence of the Justice of the Peace (JP) official and have the form certified by the JP by affixing the JP’s signature.
4. Once the form is completed and signed, submit it to the JIPO office with the digital copy of the work and the payment of a reasonable fee.
5. JIPO will review your declaration and keep it in their system.
   

• Complete declaration form.
• Payment receipt.
  

Jamaica Intellectual Property Office
Address:18 Trafalgar Road, Kingston 10
Jamaica, West Indies
Tel: 876.946-1300, 946-0789, 946-9216
Fax: 876.927-6744
Email: info@jipo.gov.jm
For copyrights: copyright@jipo.gov.jm
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The author or person who creates a work is eligible to apply.

Find fees details using this Application fees link move your mouse to Copyright to select GAD fee.

The declaration is valid for the lifetime of the copyright.

Declaration of Copyright Ownership Authorship Form link

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Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

• Copyright applies to original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works, sound recordings, films, broadcasts or cable programs, typographical arrangements of published editions.
• Literary works include works (other than a dramatic or musical work) that are written spoken or sung, such as poetry, plays, novels, sermons, or computer programs.
• Dramatic works include dances and mimes.
• Musical works refer to the melodic content of the work - lyrics are treated as literary works.
• Artistic works include graphic works such as paintings, drawings, maps, charts, plans, engravings, etchings, lithographs, woodcut, or similar works, as well as photographs, sculptures, collages, buildings, and models of buildings.
• It is neither needed nor compulsory to register for copyright protection under the Copyright Act of Jamaica or any of the copyright laws of the countries that are members of the Berne Convention for the protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
• It is also not required to deposit work at JIPO to obtain protection.
• Copyright does not protect titles by themselves, nor names, short phrases, slogans, ideas, concepts, processes, principles or procedures, methods, factual information, Other types of Intellectual Property may be applicable.
  

• Name.
• Declaration.
  

The declaration proves that you have accepted ownership of the copyright and it is legally binding.

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