Source: http://en.wikipedia.nom.cl/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length
Timestamp: 2019-11-19 13:05:50
Document Index: 24788027

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 74', 'Art. 77', 'Art. 75', 'Art. 76', 'Art. 65', 'Art. 45', 'Art. 45', 'Art. 45', 'Art. 27', 'Art. 27', 'Art. 27', 'Art. 12', 'Art. 15', 'art, 25', 'Art. 16', 'Art. 12', 'Art. 1653', 'Art. 1672', '§ 38', '§ 40', '§ 43', 'Art. 1', 'art.3', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 8', 'Art. 49', 'Art. 43', 'Art. 31', 'Art. 43', 'Art. 48', 'Art. 25', 'Art. 27', 'Art. 51', 'Art. 54', 'Art. 53', 'Art. 57', 'Art. 39', 'Art. 40', 'Art. 41', 'Art. 44', 'Art. 36', 'Art. 38', 'Art. 21', 'Art. 23', 'Art. 106', 'Art. 21']

Congo, Democratic Republic of the Life + 50 years [53]:Art. 74 25 years from publication (photograph works).[53]:Art. 77
50 years from publication (anonymous, pseudonymous or posthumous work) [53]:Art. 75 Yes[53]:Art. 76
Congo, Republic of the Life + 50 years[54] 25 years from creation (photographic work and work of applied art)[54]:Art. 65
Costa Rica Life + 70 years[55]
Côte d'Ivoire Life + 99 years (except posthumous works published within this period)[56]:Art. 45(1) 99 years from publication (photographic or audiovisual works or works of applied art; anonymous or pseudonymous works; posthumous works)[56]:Art. 45(3)(a–c) Yes[56]:Art. 45
Croatia Life + 70 years[57]
Curaçao Life + 50 years[58]
Czech Republic Life + 70 years[60]:Art. 27(1) 70 years from publication (anonymous works)[60]:Art. 27(3) Yes[60]:Art. 27(7)
Denmark Life + 70 years[61][d]
Djibouti Life + 50 years (Djibouti Copyright Law No. 154/AN/06 of July 23, 2006)[63]:Art. 12 For a cinematographic work, 50 years from the date when the work was made lawfully accessible to the public with the author's consent.[63]:Art. 15
For a photographic work or work of applied art, 25 years from the production of the work[63]:Art. 16 Yes[63]:Art. 12
Dominica Life + 70 years[64]
Dominican Republic Life + 70 years [65]
Egypt Life + 50 years[67]
El Salvador Life + 50 years[68]
Equatorial Guinea Life + 80 years.[69][70] However, there are additional expiration rules in Article 38 of the Main Equatorial Guinea Intellectual Property Law which may affect this.
Eritrea Life + 0 years but at least 50 years since publication, whichever is longer (except posthumous works)[71]:Art. 1653, 1670 50 years since publication (posthumous works)[71]:Art. 1672
Estonia Life + 70 years (EU)[72]:§ 38(1) 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[72]:§ 40 Yes[72]:§ 43
Ethiopia Life + 50 years[73]
European Union Members Life + 70 years[74]:Art. 1 (1) 70 years from publication or if unpublished 70 years from creation (anonymous works. The terms "shall be calculated from the first day of January of the year following the event which gives rise to them" (art.3).)[74]:Art. 1 (3), (6) Yes[74]:Art. 8 (1)
Fiji Life + 50 years[75]
Finland Life + 70 years[76] 50 years from publication (sound recordings, television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)[77]:Arts. 46, 48
50 years from creation (photographic works)[77]:Art. 49a
Yes[77]:Art. 43
France Life + 70 years (except posthumous works published after this term)[e][78]:Arts. L123-1, L123-2
The following additions to copyright term formerly applied to all works, but the French Cour de Cassation has found them to be superseded by later copyright treaties, thus limiting the copyright term to life + 70 years total, at least for non-musical works of authors who did not "die for France".[79]
+ 6 years 152 days for musical work published through 1920[78]:Art. L123-8
+ 8 years and 120 days for musical work published through 1947[78]:Art. L123-9
+ 30 years for all works if the author died on active service[78]:Art. L123-10
70 years from publication (pseudonymous, anonymous or collective works)[78]:Art. L123-3
25 years from publication (posthumous works published after Art. L123-1 term)[78]:L123-4
Yes[78]:Arts. L123-1, L123-3, L123-4,
Gambia Life + 50 years[80]
Georgia Life + 70 years[81]
Germany Life + 70 years[82] 25 years from first publication or first public performance if copyright has expired before such publication or performance, or if the work has never been protected in Germany and the author died more than 70 years before the first publication[83] Yes[84]
Ghana Life + 70 years[85]
Greece Life + 70 years[f][86]:Arts. 29, 31(3) 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[86]:Art. 31(1) Yes[86]:Arts. 29, 31
Grenada Berne, TRIPS[87]
Guatemala Life + 75 years[88]:Art. 43 75 years from publication or if unpublished 75 years from creation (computer programs and collective works; anonymous or pseudonymous works; audiovisual works)[88]:Arts. 44, 45, 47 Yes[88]:Art. 48
Guyana Life + 50 years[89]
Haiti Berne, TRIPS[90]
Honduras Life + 75 years[91] 70 years from publication or, if unpublished within 50 years, 70 years from creation (works of applied art and photographs)[92] Yes[92]
Hong Kong[g] Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with known authorship)[93]:s. 17(2)
Life + 50 years (films)[93]:s. 19[h]
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with unknown authorship)[93]:s. 17(3)
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (sound recordings)[94]:s. 18
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[94]:s. 20
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of published editions)[94]:s. 21
Yes[94]:s. 17, 18, 20, 21
Hungary Life + 70 years[95]:s. 31(1)(2)
If there are multiple authors, life of last surviving author + 70 years[95]:s. 31(4)
70 years and shall be counted from the first day of the year following the first disclosure of the work in case the person of the author is unknown. However, should the author become known during this period of time, the term of protection shall be counted as the person of the author would have been known.[95]:s. 31(3)
70 years counted from the first day of the year following the first disclosure of a collective work or a cinematographic creation.[95]:s. 31(5)(6)
25 years from the first day of the year following the first disclosure if copyright protection of a scope consistent with the author's economic rights shall be due to the person who, following the expiration of the term of protection or the period of time determined in the term of protection shall be counted from a date other than the first day of the year following the death of the author, the author dying last, or the joint author, discloses according to the law a work previously not disclosed to the public.[95]:s. 31(7), 32
As an exception expressions of folklore themselves do not, however, enjoy copyright protection in Hungary.[95]:s. 1(7)
Yes[95]:s. 31(2)
Iceland Life + 70 years[96]
India[97] Life + 60 years (except posthumous works)[i][98]:s. 22 60 years from publication (posthumous works, photographs, cinematograph films, sound recordings, works of public undertakings, and works of international organisations)[98]:ss. 24–27, 28A, 29 Yes[98]:ss. 22, 24–27, 28A, 29
Indonesia 50 years after Publication, Life+70 years[99] 70 years the duration of copyright protection to the author's death for books, musics, etc. 50 years after publication for cinematography, photograph, etc.[99]
Iran Life + 50 years[100] 30 years from publication (photographic or cinematographic works)[101]
Iraq Life + 50 years[102] 5 years from publication (photographic works)[103]
Ireland Life + 70 years[104] Yes
Israel Life + 70 years[105] 50 years from publication (photographs created until May 2007)[106] Yes[107]
[Life + 50 years][108]:Art. 25 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[108]:Art. 27
Yes[108]:s. 25, s. 32ter
Jamaica[109] Life + 95 years
Life + 50 years[110]:s. 10(1) 95 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work, work for hire)[110]:s. 10(2), s. 13A
95 years from creation (computer-generated work, broadcast, cable programme)[110]:s. 10(4), 12(1)
95 years from publication or if unpublished 95 years from creation (sound recording or film)[110]:s. 11
50 years from publication (typographical arrangement of a published edition)[110]:s. 13
Yes[110]:s. 10, 11, 12, 13
Japan Life + 70 years[111][112]:Art. 51(2) 70 years from publication, or if unpublished, 70 years from creation (cinematographic works)[112]:Art. 54(1)
70 years from publication, or if unpublished, 70 years from creation (works of a legal person or other corporate body)[113][112]:Art. 53(1)
Yes[112]:Art. 57
Jordan Life + 50 years[114]
Kazakhstan Life + 50 years[115]
Kenya Life + 50 years (literary, musical or artistic work other than photographs)[116]:s. 23(2)1 50 years from the latest of creation or publication (audio-visual works and photographs)[116]:s. 23(2) Yes[116]:s. 23
Kiribati Life + 50 years[80]
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Life + 70 years​[117] Works authored by "an institution, enterprise or organization", 50 years from publication[117]
Korea, Republic of Life + 70 years (amended on 2011-06-30)[118]:Art. 39 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[118]:Art. 40
70 years from publication, or if unpublished within 50 years, 70 years from creation (works made for hire, cinematographic works)[118]:Art. 41
Yes[118]:Art. 44
Kuwait TRIPS[119]
Kyrgyzstan Life + 50 years[120]
Latvia Life + 70 years[123]:Art. 36
[Life + 50 years][124] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[125] Yes[123]:Art. 38
Lebanon Life + 50 years[126] 50 years after lawful publication; failing publication, 50 years after work completion. Also:
• broadcasters' rights: 20 years after first broadcasting.[127]
Lesotho Life + 50 years[80]
Liberia Life + 50 years[128]
[Life + 50 years][131]
Macau[g] Life + 50 years[132]:Art. 21(1) 50 years from publication (anonymous works)[132]:Art. 23
50 years from publication (audiovisual works)[132]:Art. 106
25 years from completion (works of applied art and photographic works)[132]:Arts. 148 & 155
Yes[132]:Art. 21(3)
Madagascar Life + 70 years[133]
Malawi Life + 50 years[134]
Malaysia[135] Life + 50 years (literary, musical and artistic works, not posthumous)[136]:s. 17(1) 50 years after publication (posthumous work, published edition, film, live performance)[136]:s. 17(2), s. 18, s. 22, s. 23A
50 years after publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (anonymous, pseudonymous work, sound recording, broadcast, film)[136]:s. 17(3), s. 19
50 years after being made (broadcast)[136]:s. 20
Yes[136]:s. 17(2), (3), s. 18, s. 19, s. 20, s. 22, s. 23A
Maldives Life + 50 years[137]
Mali Life + 50 years[138]
Malta Life + 70 years[139] Yes[139]
Marshall Islands 0, no copyright.[k][140][141] At this stage the Republic of Marshall Islands is not member to any international convention [or treaty] on copyright[142] 0, no copyright.[k]
Mauritius Life + 50 years[143]
Mexico Life + 100 years (effective 23 July 2003 non-retroactively)[144]
[Life + 75 years (before the law change on 23 July 2003, applicable for deaths before 23 July 1928)][145]
[Life + 50 years (before the law change on 1 January 1994, applicable for deaths before 1 January 1944)][146]
Micronesia Life + 50 years[147]
Moldova Life + 70 years[148]
Monaco Life + 50 years[149]
Mongolia Life + 50 years[150]
Montenegro[l] Life + 70 years[151]
Morocco Life + 50 years[152] 70 years after a work's lawful publication; if no lawful publication has taken place within 50 years of the making, copyright lasts for 70 years after the work's communication to the public; if no lawful communication to the public has taken place within 50 years of the making, copyright lasts for 70 years after the work is made; and
70 years for Broadcasters' rights: if no lawful publication has taken place within 50 years of the work's creation, copyright lasts for 70 years after the work's creation.[153]
Mozambique Life + 70 years[154]
Namibia Life + 50 years (except posthumous works)[155]:s. 3(2)(a) 50 years from publication (posthumous works)[155]:s. 3(2)(a)
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (cinematograph films, photographs and computer programs)[155]:s. 3(2)(b)
Yes[155]:s. 3
Nauru Life + 50 years[156][157]:s. 2(3), s. 3(4) 50 years after publication (sound recordings,[156][157]:s. 12(3) cinematograph films[156][157]:s. 13(3)(b) (except for newsreels, or if registered under the Cinematograph Films Act 1938),[156][157]:Second television and sound broadcasts,[156][157]:s. 14(2) photographs,[156][157]:s. 3(4)(b) engravings,[156][157]:s. 3(4)(a) posthumous literary, dramatic and musical works[156][157]:s. 2(3) and anonymous literary, dramatic and musical works)[156][157]:Second Schedule
25 years after publication (published editions of literary, dramatic or musical works)[156][157]:s. 15(2)
50 years after occurrence of event (newsreels)[156][157]:s. 13(8)
50 years after death of last author to die (works of joint authorship)[156][157]:Third Schedule
Yes[156][157]
Nepal Life + 50 years 25 years from creation (applied art and photographic work)[158]
Netherlands Life + 70 years[159] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work, corporate works with no listed natural author)[160]
25 years from publication (works first published more than 70 years after the death of the author)[161]
Caribbean Netherlands Life + 50 years[163]
New Zealand Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work)[164]:s. 22(1) 50 years from creation (computer-generated work)[164]:s. 22(2) Yes[164]:s. 22
Nicaragua Life + 70 years[165]
Niger Life + 50 years[166]
Nigeria Life + 70 years (literary, musical or artistic works other than photographs)[167] 70 years from publication (literary, musical or non-photograph artistic works in the case of government or a body corporate)
50 years from publication (broadcasts)[167]
North Macedonia Life + 70 years[168]
Life + 15 years, but no less than 50 years after publication ("«simple» photographs")[169][170]
70 years for anonymous works from the year when the work was created. If such an unpublished work, whose copyright has expired, is then later published, the publisher is entitled for a copyright for 25 years from the year of publication[169]
"Norway also has some peculiar laws that protect «simple» photographs. I.e. photographs, such as snapshots, that are below the threshold of originality to merit copyright protection are given neighbouring rights protection. [..] The Norwegian copyright act does not address public domain directly. The Norwegian copyright law defines two basic rights for authors: economic rights and moral rights. [..] For material that is outside the scope of copyright, the phrase «i det fri» («in the free») is used. This corresponds roughly to the term «public domain» in English. Norwegian copyright law makes a distinction between copyright and neighbouring rights. Only creative and artistic works are subject to copyright. Some other types of works are protected by so‐called neighbouring rights."[169]
St. Kitts and Nevis Life + 50 years[80]
Serbia[m] Life + 70 years[151]
Sint Maarten Life + 50 years[58]
Tuvalu Life + 50 years[80]
^ Examples of protected works are literature, music, theatre, film, the visual arts – including photography, architecture, decorative arts – and computer programmes. It is the expression of the work which is protected – that is to say, the work's singular design or presentation. Copyright applies from the moment of creation of the work. Thus, protection does not depend on any kind of registration.[62]
^ The law entered into force January 16, 2012.[121][122]
^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/8491760/japan-law-extending-copyright-protection-period-for
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