I. Interpretation of Copyright Registration
Registration of works is not a necessary procedure for obtaining copyright. Works should be registered voluntarily. Whether a work is registered or not does not affect the copyright obtained by the author or other copyright owners according to law. However, copyright registration is helpful to solve copyright disputes caused by copyright ownership and can provide preliminary evidence for solving copyright disputes. Work registration authority: Copyright bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are responsible for the work registration of authors or other copyright owners within their respective jurisdictions. The National Copyright Administration is responsible for the registration of works by authors or other copyright owners in foreign countries and Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macao.
What are the kinds of copyright registration and where can I register them?
Second, the copyright registration method
You can choose to register with the copyright bureau yourself or entrust a copyright agency to handle the registration.
Third, the author conditions of copyright registration.
Must have creative ability; Must have actually carried out creative activities and created works.
Works protected by copyright mainly include the following categories:
1. Written works: novels, essays, essays, poems, plays, academic papers, works, periodicals, teaching materials and letters. Diaries, newspapers, advertising words. Not all works in the form of written works are written works, such as calligraphy works, but a kind of artistic works.
2. Oral works: impromptu speeches, lectures, court debates and other works expressed in oral and linguistic forms.
3. Musical works: songs, symphonies and other works with or without words that can be sung or played.
4. Dramatic works: scripts, operas, local operas and other works created for stage performances. Drama script, drama script, opera script, ballet script)
5. Quyi works: cross talk, string playing, storytelling, jokes, Allegro, Shandong Allegro, Jingyun Drum, JD.COM Drum, Xihe Drum, Henan pendant and other forms of rap scripts.
6. Dance works: The design of dance movements and the arrangement of procedures can be recorded in words or other specific ways. For example, dance works are expressed in the form of dance scores. Such as "positioning dance scoring method"
7. Acrobatic art works: scripts created for performances such as car skills, ventriloquism, top bowl, tightrope walking, lion dance and magic.
8. Works of art: refers to artistic works of plane or three-dimensional modeling, such as painting, calligraphy and sculpture, which are composed of lines, colors or other means and have aesthetic significance. Pure works of art: sketches, oil paintings, Chinese paintings, prints, watercolors, corporate logos, trademark graphics. Practical works of art: ceramic art
9. Architectural works: design drawings of buildings or paintings and photos with buildings as the core.
10. Photographic works: pictures that objectively record the image of an object.
1 1. Film works and works created by methods similar to film production: film works (sound and silence), TV works, video works, etc.
12. Graphic works: engineering design drawings, product design drawings, maps, circuit diagrams and anatomical drawings.
13. model works: three-dimensional works made in a certain proportion, such as miniature landscapes.
14. Computer software: computer programs and related documents. Computer programs include: source programs and target programs. The source text and the target text of the same program should be regarded as the same work. Documents: program design instructions, flow charts, user manuals, etc.
15. Folk writing works: fairy tales, folk fables, folklore, folk operas, folk songs, folk songs, folk music, folk dances, folk plastic arts and folk architectural arts.
Three. Duration of copyright protection
1. The term of protection of the author's personal rights, such as the right of authorship, the right of revision and the right to protect the integrity of the work, is unlimited.
2. For citizens' works, the copyright law stipulates that the protection period of publishing right and 14 property right is 50 years before the author's death and ends at 65438+February 3/day in the fiftieth year after the author's death; If it is a cooperative work, the deadline is 65438+February 3 1 50 years after the death of the last dead author.
3. For works of legal persons or other organizations, and works whose copyright (except the right of signature) is enjoyed by legal persons or other organizations, the protection period of publishing right and 14 property right stipulated in the Copyright Law is 50 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.
4. For cinematographic works and works created by methods similar to cinematographic and photographic works, the protection period of publishing right and 14 property right stipulated in the Copyright 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, the copyright law will no longer be protected.
Fourth, the copyright registration procedure.
Submission of works-power of attorney for copyright-submission (copy of business license and ID card)-payment-acceptance-review-certificate (30 working days)