As long as the criminal is the author of the work and has not transferred it to others, he still enjoys the copyright. As long as the original author can provide such evidence, he can protect his copyright. Now every prefecture-level city basically has a copyright bureau, through which he can apply for a copyright registration certificate to protect his copyright. However, it usually takes one to two months to apply for the copyright registration Certificate through the Copyright Administration.
The main body of copyright protection is as follows:
1, citizen. Citizens who create works are authors and can become the subject of copyright according to law;
2. Legal person. A work presided over by a legal person, created on behalf of the legal person's will, and undertaken by a legal person unit is regarded as the author;
3. A work hosted by an unincorporated unit, created by a representative of the unincorporated unit and assumed by the unincorporated unit, shall be regarded as the author;
4. foreigners. The works of foreigners are first published in China and enjoy copyright according to law;
5. Countries:
(1) The state accepts the copyright of the work bequeathed by the late writer;
(2) There is no author or unknown author of ancient works;
(3) The state nationalizes some works;
(4) After the change or termination of a legal person or entity without legal personality, there is no legal person or entity without legal personality to undertake its rights and obligations within the protection period.
6. Under special circumstances, the copyright owners of cooperative works, edited works, professional works, commissioned works, deductive works, film works and works created by similar cinematography methods shall be determined according to law.
To sum up, works created by citizens to complete the tasks of legal persons or other organizations belong to job works, and the copyright is enjoyed by the author, but legal persons or other organizations have the right to give priority to the use within their business scope. Within two years after the completion of the work, the author shall not permit a third person to use the work in the same way as the work used by the unit without the consent of the unit.
Legal basis:
Article 52 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
Anyone who commits one of the following acts of infringement shall, according to the circumstances, bear civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the influence, apologizing and compensating for the losses:
(1) publishing his work without the permission of the copyright owner;
(2) publishing a work created in cooperation with others as a work created by oneself without the permission of a co-author;
(three) did not participate in the creation, in order to seek personal fame and fortune, signed other people's works;
(4) distorting or tampering with other people's works;
(5) Plagiarizing other people's works;
(6) Using a work by means of exhibition, filming of audio-visual products, etc., or using a work by means of adaptation, translation, annotation, etc. without the permission of the copyright owner, except as otherwise provided by this Law;
(seven) the use of another person's work, which should be paid but not paid;
(8) Renting the originals or duplicates of audio-visual works, computer software and audio-visual products without the permission of the copyright owner, performer or producer of audio-visual products, except as otherwise provided by this Law;
(9) Using the layout design of books and periodicals published by publishers without their permission;
(10) Live broadcast or public dissemination of a live performance or recording of a performance without the permission of the performer;
(eleven) other acts of infringement of copyright and copyright-related rights.