How You Can Copyright Your Creations Online If you are an inventor or a person in the intellectual field, you need to be aware of copyright. Copyright has a special importance in protecting the creations created by the human brain in the fields of literature, music, art, architecture, knowledge, and information technology, as well as guaranteeing the economic and moral rights of the creator.
The Copyright Act 2059 has been enacted in Nepal for this purpose. The Office of Nepal Copyright Registrar, established under the same Act, has been doing various related work. Under this, the office has launched an information system to register the copyright of compositions since last August. Before that, one had to go to the office to register the composition.
According to him, after submitting the documents online, within 35 days, the certificate is given to the authorized person or organization.
Today we are going to tell you how to register any type of intellectual property online:
First of all, go to the registrar’s website by clicking here.
If you have already created an account on this website, log in with your email and password. If you have not created an account, click on ‘Register’ below and create a new one.
In this system, you can create an account individually or institutionally. These can be selected from the new page that appears after clicking on Register.
If you want to register the composition individually, then click on ‘individual’ and ‘agency’ and fill out the corresponding form.
After doing this, your account is ready. But you have to log in again.
After logging in to the website, a message to complete the profile appears on the upper part of the dashboard. Only after completing the profile in this system can the work of composition registration be done. For this, click on ‘Complete Now’.
Now a new form will be opened to complete the profile on the new page. Fill in all the details and click on ‘Save’ below. After doing this, your profile will be complete. Now you can register any of your creations on that profile.
On the new page, the menu will appear on the left side, and the dashboard will appear on the right side. If the composition is registered, its details will appear on the dashboard, and if not, the dashboard will show blank.
To compose, click on ‘Form’ in the menu. Click on it, and the form will appear. The form is divided into five pages. It is not possible to reach the next page until the complete details are filled out on the previous page.
First page
In this, you have to put the genre or category, title, page number, date of creation, etc. of the composition you are going to register.
Second page
In this case, any proof or certificate or any other document or file supporting the composition should be filled in to confirm that the composition is one’s own. If these are not there, ignore them and go to the next page.
Third page
In it, you should keep information about the other authors of the work and the person who owns it. If these are not there, ignore them and go to the next page.
Fourth page
In this, you have to upload a photo of the payment receipt paid to the Revenue. 110 rupees for the revenue amount (10 rupees for the postage stamp and 100 rupees for the composition registration fee).
You can deposit this amount through Connect IPS or Commercial Bank (Revenue Title 14229 and Office Code 325043501) to the government account.
Last page
It shows a summary of all the details you have filled out so far. If any details are wrong, you can go back there and correct them. If all the details are correct, click on ‘Submit’ and proceed. Or you can draft by clicking on ‘Save’.
If the form is submitted, its status will be displayed as ‘New Application’ on the dashboard. If the registrar’s staff starts checking the details, the status of the application will show as ‘On Progress’.
Now, if your composition or part of it has been moved, stolen, or used by other creators, you can also take action by clicking on ‘Complaint’ in the menu. You can read more about this process by clicking here.
(Note: All the above screenshots are taken from the Copyright Registration Management Information System User Manual of the Office of the Nepal Copyright Registrar.)
How You Can Copyright Your Creations Online 