IP/N/1/TUR/22  
IP/N/1/TUR/C/7  
 
9 February 2024  
(24-1132) Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of   
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
TÜRKIYE : REGULATION ON THE REGISTRATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC WORKS  
Notifying Member  TÜRKIYE  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Regulation on the Registration of the Intellectual and Artistic Works  
Subject matter  Copyright and related rights  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2024/IP/TUR/24_00970_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [X] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  Not applicable  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Rights on Intellectual and Artistic Works are not subject to the registration requirement and such 
rights exist from the moment when the work is created. However, "registration system " is 
implemented in order to provide evidential proof of the right holder  and follow up the authority to 
exercise the financial rights without aiming at creating rights.  
 
Film producers that make the first fixation of films and phonogram producers that make the first 
fixation of sounds shall have their productions containing c inematographic and musical works 
recorded and registered for the purpose of preventing violation of their rights, facilitating proof of 
rightholdership and tracking the authority to exercise economic rights, and without the aim of 
creating any rights. The recording and registration of all the works protected under Law No 5846 on 
Intellectual and Artistic Works may be made for the same purpose upon demand of the authors; the 
authority to exercise economic rights may also be recorded.  
 
In order to improve the  smooth functioning of the Regulation and to meet some needs notified to 
the Directorate General of Copyright rising from practices of the regulation in the field, some 
amendments were made to facilitate the practice and enforcement.  
 
Language(s) of 
notif ied legal text English  IP/N/1/TUR/22 • IP/N/1/TUR/C/7  
 
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  Entry into force  17 May 2006;  
Regulation entered into force on 17/5/2006. Recent amendments dated 
6/7/2021 entered into force on 1/1/2022.  
 
Other date   Publication: 17 May 2006  
 
Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  27 December 2023  
Other information  See also IP/N/1/TUR/C/6   
(Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works (Copyright Act) ) 
 
https://telifhaklari.ktb.gov.tr/Eklenti/106988,fikir -ve-sanat -eserlerinin -
kayit-ve-tescili -hakkinda -yonetmelikpdf.pdf?0   
(Regulation in Turkish)  
 
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Directorate General for Copyright  
Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Türkiye  
Atatürk Bulvarı  
Derman Cad. No: 29, 06050  
Ulus / ANKARA  
TÜRKİYE  
 
E-mail:  copyrightturkey@ktb.gov.tr  
 
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
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