d) An assignment in whole or in part of any economic right, or a license to do an act subject to
authorization by the owner of copyright, shall not include or be deemed to include the assignment
or license of any other rights not explicitly referred to therein.
e) An assignment, license or testamentary disposition may be effectively granted or made in respect
of a future work, or an existing work in which copyright does not yet subsist and the prospective
copyright in any such work shall be transmissible by operation of law as movable property.
f) A testamentary disposition of the material on which a work is first written or otherwise recorded
shall, in the absence of anything to the contrary, be taken to include the disposition of any
copyright or prospective copyright in the work which is vested in the testator.
§ 9.24. Application for Registration; Issuance of Certificate
The application for copyright registration shall be made pursuant to regulations of the Intellectual Property
Office. When, after examination, the Registrar of the Copyright Department, determines that in
accordance with the provisions of this Part, the material deposited constitutes copyrightable subject matter
and that the other legal and formal requirements of regulations of the Intellectual Property Office have
been met, shall register the claim and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration under the seal of
the Intellectual Property Office. The certificate shall contain the information given in the application,
together with the number and effective date of the registration.
§ 9.25. Registration of Transfers and other Documents
a) Any transfer of copyright ownership or other document pertaining to a copyright may be registered
in the Intellectual Property Office if the document filed for registration bears the actual signature
of the person who executed it, or if it is accompanied by a sworn affidavit or official certification
that it is a true copy of the original, signed document.
b) The Director General shall, upon receipt of a document provided by sub-section (a) and of the fee
as specified by the Intellectual Property Office, shall register through the Registrar the document
and return it with a certificate of record.
c) Registration of a document in the Intellectual Property Office shall give all persons constructive
notice of the facts stated in the registered document.
d) In the case of works first published in Liberia by Liberian authors, no persons claiming by virtue
of a transfer to be the owner of copyright may institute an infringement action unless the claim has
been registered in the Intellectual Property Office. An infringement action may be initiated after
registration on a cause of action that arose before registration.
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