In 2014 Kuwait ratified the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. In the same year the Council of Ministers issued Resolution No. 1070 transferring the dependency copyright administration from the Ministry of Trade and Industry to the National Library of Kuwait. The National Library provides services in the area of depository, preservation, and protection of intellectual property rights of authors through the application of the depository System, where the author or publisher registers and deposits the author’s artistic works in the National Library to ensure the conservation of the author’s intellectual property.