Antigua and Barbuda has established a Copyright Tribunal that exclusively hears matters involving copyright royalties. (Section 103 (1) of the Copyright Act 2003)

The functions of the Tribunal includes:

1.  to hear and determine –
   1. • any matter referred to any provision relating to a licensing scheme or licence;
      • an application to settle the royalty or other sum payable for rental of a sound recording, film or computer programme; 
2. to keep under review the prescribed rate of royalty payable to a performer in connection with an adaptation of an original recording of his performance; and 
3. to make recommendations to the Minister on the rate of royalties or other payments payable in respect of the use or presentation in such national cultural events as he may by order designate any works or performance in which copyright or other rights subsist.

The Tribunal may from time to time on its own initiative and shall, on a request made in writing by the Minister, enquire into the appropriateness of such rate and make such recommendations to the Minister with respect thereto as it thinks fit.

The enforcement measures allow trade mark and copyright owners to ask the Antigua and Barbuda Customs and Excise Division to detain suspected pirated and counterfeit goods at the border that are either being imported or are being trans-shipped through Antigua and Barbuda. Detaining the goods lets the trade mark or copyright owners start court action for trade mark or copyright infringement.

However, border enforcement measures don’t apply to goods imported by a person for their private and domestic use.

The owner of the copyright in any published literary dramatic or musical work may give notice in writing to the Comptroller of Customs – 

1. that he is the owner of the copyright in the work; and
2. that he requests the Comptroller of Customs to treat as prohibited goods under the Customs Control and Management Act, No. 7 of 1993 during a period specified in the notice, printed copies of the work which are infringing copies. (Section 50 subsection 1 of the Copyright Act 2003.)

The owner of the copyright in a sound recording or film may give notice in writing to the Comptroller of Customs- 

1.  that he is the owner of the copyright in the work; 
2. that infringing copies of the work are expected to arrive in Antigua and Barbuda at a time and a place specified in the notice; and (c) that he requests the Comptroller to treat the copies as prohibited goods under the Customs Control and Management Act. 

• that he is the owner of the registered trademark;

• that the infringing trademark goods, articles or materials are expected to arrive in Antigua and Barbuda at a time and a place specified in the notice; and

• that he requests the Comptroller of Customs to treat as prohibited goods under the Customs (Control and Management) Act, 1993 during a period specified in the notice, the infringing trademark goods, articles or materials. (Section 24 subsection 1 of the Trade Mark Act 2003.)