Trinidad and Tobago 2012 - invesTT

A GUIDE TO INVESTING IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (2012)
Section 10
Copyright in audio-visual productions made by foreign performers
and foreign producers will be protected.
Civil and criminal proceedings can be brought against any person
who or organization which manufactures or imports for sale or rental,
any device (or means) which is specifically designed to decode or
circumvent another device (or means) intended to prevent or restrict
reproduction or a work or production.
Works not protected
An idea, procedure, discovery, mere data, text of a legislative nature,
an official translation, political speeches and speeches delivered in
the course of legal proceedings.
Work can be registered in some countries as follows:
Generally, copyright lasts the lifetime of the author and fifty (50)
years after his death while for Collective or Audio Visual Work it is
seventy-five (75) years from the date on which the work was first
published or one hundred years from the making of the work, if the
work had neither been made available to the public or published
before twenty five (25) years after its making. For Works of Applied
Arts it is twenty-five (25) years from the making of the work.
Copyright guarantees the protection of works irrespective of its
mode or form of expression (i.e. aural works are protected, albeit,
they have not been expressed in material form)
Neighbouring rights in a broadcast made by foreign performers and
foreign producers will be protected.
Registrar of Copyrights
Copyright Office,
The Library of Congress, Department 17,
Washington D.C. 20540,
United States of America.
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Place du Portage 1,
50 Victoria Street, Hull,
Quebec, K1A OC9, Canada.
GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
Defined by the Intellectual Property Office, “geographical
indications” are a “sign or symbol which identifies a good as
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