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Q: Is the duly noted® registration service valid internationally?

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Many visitors to our website think our registration service is only valid for residents of the UK, but this is not the case.

What we can say is that copyright is a nigh-on worldwide right; well-established, automatic, and internationally recognised, established by agreements like the Berne Convention (1886), the Universal Copyright Convention (1952), and The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) (1994), have nigh-on a hundred and eighty signatory states between them. So while not every country in the world has participated in these treaties, it does mean copyright is almost universal.

Now what these above agreements mean is that participating states must grant the same minimum standards of protection they offer to copyright owners within their own borders, to the copyright owners of other participating nations. Consequently, a copyright registration of your work in your or another country should be recognised as evidence elsewhere, meaning you should not need to repeat the registration process. A registration with duly noted® should therefore be sufficient for your needs, as we are committed to submitting the registration evidence according to the law of the country in which the infringement court case is happening