Registration of computer programs or Software in Brazil have the legal rights assured by the current law, Brazilian Laws 9.609/98 and 9.610/98.
What do you need to register a Software in Brazil?
Registration in the name of a Company
• Declaration of the "Language" used for creating the Software;
• Copy of the Social Contract;
• Power of Attorney;
• Assignment Deed;
• If the software designers are employees, it’s necessary the employment contract;
• The main windows of the software printed (optionally it can be written commentaries on the printed version);
• Font file of the Software (printed).
Registration in the name of a Person
• Declaration of the "Language" used for creating the Software;
• Power of Attorney;
• Assignment Deed;
• If the software designers are employees, it’s necessary the employment contract;
• The main windows of the software printed (optionally it can be written commentaries on the printed version);
• Font file of the Software (printed).
Validity Term: It’s assured the protection of the computer program for the stated period of 50 (fifty) years, counted from January 1st of the subsequent year to the one of publication or, in the absence of this, of its creation.
The Law Nº 9,610/98 foresees the protection of the paperwork’s titles. So what is the benefit of such protection in the case of the computer programs?
It is important to emphasize that the protection for the paperwork’s titles, foreseen in law - Law nº 9,610/98, Article 10 - it’s conditioned to "originality and incompatibility with paperwork of the same sort, divulged previously by another author". Therefore, through the title, the corporate name of the programs can and must be protected, being this more one positive characteristic of the register, because with only this step (the register) we protect the program itself and its corporate name.