What do I need to do to copyright my work?

According to Article 11 of the Law of Ukraine "On Copyright and Related Rights", the copyright to a work arises as a result of the fact of its creation. The creation and exercise of copyright does not require the registration of a work or any other special design of it, as well as the fulfillment of any other formalities.

If you are the author of a work (literary, musical, audiovisual, photographic, visual, etc.), it is important to certify your authorship in order to protect property and non-property rights to this work. For this purpose, information about the work is entered into the State Register of Certificates of Copyright Registration of the Work. For this you need:

1. Apply to the State Enterprise "Ukrainian Institute of Intellectual Property" with the relevant application.

2. Apply for the service in person or through a legal representative.

3. Documents that must be provided to receive the service: application for registration of copyright to the work; a copy of the work in the prescribed material form; a document testifying to the fact and date of publication of the work (if the work has been published); a document on payment of a fee for preparation for registration and a document on payment of state duty for issuing a registration certificate or a copy of documents confirming the right to exemption from payment of a fee and state duty; a document on the payment of the state duty for the issuance of a certificate or a copy of the document confirming the right to exemption from the payment of the duty for the issuance of a certificate; a power of attorney drawn up in accordance with the established procedure, if the application is submitted by an authorized person on behalf of the author or his heir, or a copy of the power of attorney certified in accordance with the law; a document certifying the inheritance of the author's property right (if the application is submitted by the author's heir); instructions for using the database and description of the structure of the database (for registration of copyright to the database); instructions for using the program (for registering a copyright on a computer program); abstract, which must contain the name of the work, its location (address), architectural characteristics and parameters, time and place of creation (for registration of copyright on works of architecture, urban planning, garden and park and monumental art)