D.R. (Derechos Reservados)

D.R. is the Spanish acronym for "Derechos Reservados" ("Rights Reserved" or "All Rights Reserved") This phrase, which indicates that the copyright owner does not want to give up any of the exclusive rights that copyright law grants him, has its origin in the provisions of the Convention on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property ( Buenos Aires Convention) of 1910, signed by various American countries; Article 3 of that Convention established that "The recognition of the right to property obtained in a State in accordance with its laws, will have its full effects in all the others, provided that any manifestation that indicates the reservation of the property appears in the work. ownership and the name of the person in whose favor the reservation is registered. The phrase "All Rights Reserved" was sufficient to give effect to that provision;1 thus all rights granted under copyright law would be protected and preserved by the copyright owner, as well as than the legal actions that could be appropriate in the face of copyright infringement. The phrase was legally relevant only for the members of the Buenos Aires Convention. The obligation to add this notice is legally considered unnecessary and obsolete, since all members of said Convention, since August 23, 2000, are also members of the Berne Convention, which establishes that the protection of copyright It is not conditioned to the fulfillment of any formality. Many times the anonymity is by choice of the composer artist who decided to reserve the rights of his work, but not to spread his name, that is, his work is anonymous. On the other hand, there are also cases where the authorship of the work does not have a known historical source, especially in popular songs of the 19th century and early 20th century, for example, so this acronym is also used.