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Item Significance of Copyright Registration in Ethiopia(Addis Ababa University, 2023-01) Shiferaw Abebe; Biruk Haile (PhD)Copyright works will get automatic legal protection as long as the work is original and fixed in a material form, without formality requirement such as publication and registration. Despite this general principle optional copyright registration is introduced in the Ethiopian legal system. Even if registration is not a prerequisite to get copyright protection, registering a copyright work has a significant role for criminal and civil proceedings and it also plays a significant role for transfer of rights, for access of finance and for claiming tax credit services. However in this study the researcher concludes copyright registration law of Ethiopia is not designed to address the social, cultural, economic and archival objectives of the country and the laws are full of gaps in addressing issues related with registration. The Ethiopian Intellectual property Authority copyright registration system, mainly its data base, filing system and organization of the registered works do not meet the standards of the digital age. For instance the data system of the Authority does not give full information to those users who want to claim compulsory license on a certain work or to identify whether a given work period of protection is lapsed or not.