Copyright includes the following personal rights and property rights:
1, the right to publish, that is, the right to decide whether the work is open or not;
2, the right of signature, that is, the right to show the identity of the author and sign the work;
3, the right to modify, that is, the right to modify or authorize others to modify the work;
4, the right to protect the integrity of the work, that is, the right to protect the work from distortion and tampering;
5. The right of reproduction, that is, the right to make one or more copies of a work by printing, copying, rubbing, recording, video recording, copying, remaking and digitizing;
6. The right of distribution, that is, the right to provide the original or copy of the work to the public by way of sale or gift;
7. The right to rent, that is, the right to temporarily license others to use the originals or copies of audio-visual works and computer software with compensation, except that computer software is not the main object of rent;
8. The right to exhibit, that is, the right to publicly display the originals or copies of artistic works and photographic works;
9. The right to perform, that is, the right to publicly perform a work and publicly broadcast the performance of the work in various ways;
10, the right of expression, that is, the right to publicly copy art, photography, audio-visual works, etc. Through projectors, slide projectors and other technical equipment;
1 1. The right to broadcast, that is, the right to publicly broadcast or rebroadcast the works by wired or wireless means, and the right to broadcast the broadcast works to the public through loudspeakers or other similar tools for transmitting symbols, sounds and images, but not including the right specified in Item 12 of this Article;
12, the right of information network communication, that is, the right to provide it to the public by wired or wireless means, so that the public can obtain the works at the time and place of their choice;
13, the right to shoot, that is, the right to fix the audio-visual work on the carrier by shooting it;
14, the right of adaptation, that is, the right to change a work and create a new work with originality;
15, translation right, that is, the right to convert a work from one language to another;
16, the right to assemble, that is, the right to assemble a work or fragments of a work into a new work by selecting or sorting;
17. Other rights that should be enjoyed by the copyright owner.
To sum up, according to the provisions of the Copyright Law, how many years is the copyright term of a musical work, depending on the specific rights of the musical copyright. If it is property right, it is generally 50 years after the author's death.
Legal basis:
Article 17 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
The ownership of commissioned works's copyright is stipulated by the client and the trustee through the contract. If the contract is not clearly stipulated or concluded, the copyright belongs to the trustee.
Article 20
The term of protection of the author's right of authorship, modification and protection of the integrity of the work is unlimited.
Article 21
For a citizen's work, the term of protection of his right of publication and the rights stipulated in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law shall be the author's life and fifty years after his death, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after his death; If it is a cooperative work, the deadline is 65438+February 3 1 50 years after the death of the last dead author.
The term of protection for the works of a legal person or other organization and the works in which a legal person or other organization enjoys the right to publish and the rights stipulated in Items (5) to (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works, but the works have not been published within fifty years after the completion of the creation.
For cinematographic works and works created by similar cinematographic or photographic methods, the term of protection of the right of publication and the rights specified in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works. However, if the work is not published within 50 years after the creation is completed, this law will no longer protect it.