This article presents a situational analysis of copyright in chap-book in front of the issue of copyright, especially about moral and asset protection that is given to popular poets. Is justified on the basis that there is no deep and current theoretical discussions on preserving moral and patrimonial works around the chap-book work. Has employed, as methodology to get to the proper results, a literature search that was related to a corpus that observes the leaflets in popular literature. Show as results the establishment of an alternative model of period to the copyright in popular poetry and the necessity of technical, political and cultural break. Concludes informing about the importance of building a national database so that people have full knowledge of what is being produced and how, besides to know who is truly being benefited with productions in chap-book.
Copyright; Chap-book; Poets; Intellectual property