The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has unveiled a one-of-a-kind image-search function for its Global Brand Database, adding a new feature that allows users to upload an image to search for visually similar trademark and other brand-information records from among the millions of images in the collection.

The image-search functionality, which is the first such application among free, public intellectual property databases, was presented on Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the International Trademark Association (INTA) annual meeting in Hong Kong. It adds an important new search possibility for the Global Brand Database's users, who often wish to see if a logo, trademark or other similar image is separately registered for use.

There is no such thing as an “international copyright” that will automatically protect an author’s writings throughout the world. Protection against unauthorized use in a particular country depends on the national laws of that country.

Many countries offer protection to foreign works under certain conditions that have been greatly simplified by international copyright treaties and conventions. This circular provides a brief overview of the international conventions, treaties, and other bilateral instruments that the United States has concluded with other countries, and it details the participation of other countries in these same instruments.

It has been 25 years since the first Special 301 Report was published in 1989. The first report, called a “Fact Sheet,” highlighted 25 trading partners – eight on the Priority Watch List and 17 on the Watch List. 

Over the past 25 years, the Special 301 Report has identified positive advances as well as areas of continued concern. The Report has reflected changing technologies, promoted best practices, and situated these critical issues in their policy context, underscoring the importance of intellectual property rights protection and enforcement to the United States and our trading partners.

It is estimated that currently over 40% of all content published on the Internet are unauthorized copies of original publications. This figure includes a significantly large number of documents, papers and information generated by literary authors, companies, professionals, artists, etc..

Is not only an act of misappropriation that someone uses your document without permission, but it also often happens that another person or firm is making an economic benefit without the original author even knowing.

On the other hand it is important to remember that the vast amount of documentation, Excel spreadsheets, reports, procedures, etc.. that companies make available to their employees are one of the most important business assets. The fact that a company does not have a legal proof that of real owner of the know-how involves billions of dollars lost worldwide.Think of the ease with which an employee today can take the thousands of documents and confidential information on a pen-drive home or to their new job.

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DMRights.com provides you with irrefutable and non-repudiable legal proof issued by a third party or independent witness by digitally recording their content and including an inviolable timestamp while allowing you to demonstrate the existence of the publication as well as its date of creation and registration.

Once the existence of your original content is certified, you can download the digital certification of each of your documents from our client application.

Certification of a digital document on DMRights.com is carried out easily and completely on-line simply by uploading the file to our certification tool, and in just a few seconds you can download your digital certificate including all registration data and, information relating to the original content.

Our certificates of authorship have international legal validity under the Berne Convention, a convention promoted by the World Intellectual Property Organization and it has been endorsed by the World Organization of United Nations and more than 160 countries.

Depending on your country of residence, the ditial certifications of Digital Rights Media will allow you to prove the ownership of your publications for a term of between 50 years and life of the original author.
Digital Media Rights has experience in protection, registration and certification of all types of professional documentation and at present has clients in more than 80 countries.

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DMRights.com rates are designed depending on the volume in megabytes of the amount of documentation you need to certify. In this way you can adjust your budget in an easy, economical and expandable way depending on your needs.

You can start using our services for free. At the time of its registration as a customer of DMRights.com, you are allowed to certify up to 200 MB at no cost to you.