Hologram Manufacturers Association of India

HOLOGRAM ROSTER [HR]

Exclusively designed to meet the specific needs of the Hologram Industry in India, to help strengthen the hologram users’ copyright protection interests, and mandatory for the ‘Hologram Manufacturers Association of India®’ (HoMAI) members, the Hologram Roster is independently operated and is a confidential & secured database of copyright-hologram images.
HR is used for Artwork Clearance prior to the mastering/origination and its registration as soon as the Hologram is produced in order to establish a reliable prima facie evidence of first creation and offer to the hologram users and the law enforcement agencies the legitimate details & proof of the copyright so as to help prevent any inadvertent similarity or conflict with the existing design in use and to prevent its unauthorised copying/ replication/ reproduction or making of a look-alike in the design process itself - unless the original producer of the existing registered hologram has given a written authorisation.
HR users can also refer to verify whether the prospective customer is already using a hologram so as to resolve copyright issues, if any.

• HR is a secured & confidential computerised database of copyright holograms/ images - produced in India or imported.
• The registered hologram design & image features, and the information about the originator/ producer/ end-user maintained in the HR is strictly confidential, and no outside person, or any HoMAI Member, can have direct access to it or be given the details of holograms registered by others.

Benefits of Hologram Registration in the Hologram Roster:

• It protects the copyright owner from having his image reproduced without written authorisation.
• The mandatory registration of all existing and future holograms - whether manufactured in India or imported - will help enhance the faith in the security of the holograms and assure its user, and in turn his product-customers, that all possible steps have been taken for the hologram’s security & its copyright protection.
• Authenticated entries made in the Hologram Roster and the Certificate of Registration would serve as a prima facie evidence & proof, before the law enforcement agencies, in support of first/original & copyright creation.
• As per Copyright Law, reproduction of the unique image (hologram) without authorization of the Copyright holder [or assignee of the creator/producer] is prohibited, and is a non-bailable criminal offence under which all infringing copies and all plates [master/s, shims] used or intended to be used for the production of such infringing copies shall be deemed to be the property of the owner/co-owner of the copyright.

HOLOGRAM ROSTER IS ACCESSED BY ITS USERS FOR:

• CUSTOMER VERIFICATION before processing any order enquiry to ascertain whether the prospective/ existing hologram user is already sourcing from or contracted with any other hologram manufacturer/supplier.
• ARTWORK CLEARANCE - prior to originating a hologram - to find whether the planned and/or proposed Hologram design is available and is not already being considered for origination and or production by another hologram manufacturer/ supplier and/or it doesn’t conflict with and is not a copy of or doesn’t have close similarity with an already registered hologram. To avoid blocking any design, the hologram has to be produced within 3 months and registered along with a sample.
• REGISTRATION of the hologram finally produced to record the hologram design/ specifications, image features, and other copyright information to establish a reliable and authenticated proof in support of first/original creation.

To protect the security holograms nation-wide, all hologram manufacturers/ designers/ suppliers/ converters/ finishers, who are currently not members of HoMAI are urged to join HoMAI to avail the benefits of Hologram Roster. For holograms used in India — whether produced in India or imported — it will be sufficient to register with the Hologram Roster alone. However, for extra legal protection, if desired, the HR administering agency (HRS) can assist in filing a separate application with the Registrar of Copyrights/ ROC. It may, however, be noted that the ROC’s formal registration process takes a few months, various clarifications/ visits, and there is practically no possibility of any prompt search query etc.

India is signatory to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic works (116 nations) and the Universal Copyright Convention (58 countries).

HR-registered holograms thus provide the legal protection to the holograms used or produced in India.

HOLOGRAM REGISTRATION SERVICE
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