1. How does my country’s law stipulate the copyright protection period?
1 , Our country’s laws stipulate the copyright protection period as follows: For a natural person’s work, the protection period of the relevant copyright is the life of the author and fifty years after his death;The author's right of authorship, right of modification, and right to protect the integrity of the work are not limited in terms of protection period.
2. Legal basis: "Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 22: The protection period of the author’s right of signature, right of modification, and right to protect the integrity of the work is not limited.
Article 23: The right to publish works of natural persons and the rights stipulated in Items 5 to 17 of Article 10, Paragraph 1 of this Law The protection period is the life of the author and fifty years after his death, ending on December 31 of the fiftieth year after the death of the author; if it is a collaborative work, it will end on December 31 of the fiftieth year after the death of the last author. day. The protection period of the right to publish audio-visual works is fifty years, ending on December 31 of the fiftieth year after the creation of the work;
Article 10 : The protection period of the right is fifty years, ending on December 31, the fiftieth year after the work was first published. However, if the work has not been published within fifty years from the completion of its creation, this law will no longer protect it.
2. Dilemma of software copyright law protection
Our country and most countries in the world treat computer software as works and adopt the form of copyright protection instead of patent law protection. However, in practice, the copyright protection of computer software is subject to more and more challenges.First of all, copyright law only protects the form of a work, not its content. This means that the conception of a software work is not protected. As for software works and transmissions, our country and most countries in the world treat computer software as works and adopt the form of copyright protection instead of patent law protection. However, in practice, the copyright protection of computer software is subject to more and more challenges.
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