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The Ex­ec­u­tive Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Copy­right Col­lec­tion Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TTCO) is urg­ing cre­atives to reg­is­ter their artis­tic cre­ations and in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty to en­sure they can have the full pro­tec­tion of copy­right law.

“This reg­is­tra­tion of­fers a vi­tal lay­er of le­gal pro­tec­tion, strength­ens claims in any dis­pute, and can serve as ev­i­dence in a court of law,” As­ten G. Isaac, TTCO Ex­ec­u­tive Pres­i­dent, said in a state­ment.

The ad­vice comes in the wake of the copy­right judg­ment in­volv­ing the Es­tate of the Late Leroy Cal­liste—“Black Stal­in”. A judg­ment was ren­dered against his wid­ow, Janet Cal­liste, for the unau­tho­rized use of a pho­to­graph in pro­mo­tion­al ma­te­r­i­al for a trib­ute event. She in­tends to ap­peal the rul­ing.