INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Deposit of intellectual property (Law 11723)
Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including scientific, literary and artistic works. Copyright law includes "…pictorial, graphic, sculptural and architectural works,...printed matter, plans and maps, plastics, photographs, engravings, etc". At present, copyright law also protects software works.

Copyright law protects literary and artistic works, as well as works intended to spread information regardless of the medium of expression. A copyright protects the expression of an idea, and it does not protect the idea embodied in the expression.
Literally, copyright protection subsists in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated.


Benefits
Security: The administrative procedure that involves examination and acceptance
    of the work deposited in the Argentine Copyright Office constitutes sufficient
    evidence at a given date, as regards authorship and content of the work. In the
    case of a contract, it constitutes evidence of the content, the date and the
    contracting parties.
Proof of authorship: It is a presumption of authorship granted by the state on a
    certain registration date..
Basis for comparison: Registering work with the Copyright Office establishes a
    basis for comparison in the event of plagiarism or piracy. In such event, the
    registered work is submitted to the Judiciary for appraisal.
Protection of fair use: There is a presumption that the individual that is indicated as
    the author on a registration certificate is in fact the author of the work. An author
    who publishes a work pursuant to the registration certificates filed with the
    Copyright Office shall not be prosecuted for criminal liabilities in case another
    individual claimed to be the real author of the work.
Publication of the registered work and contracts: Registering a work with the
    Copyright Office implies a benefit for any individual who wishes to invoke the
    protection of copyright laws against third-party claims.
In case of doubt, loss or dispute over an unpublished work, the claiming parties
    can request the Copyright Office to disclose the content of the deposited work and
    issue the corresponding certificate.