The term of protection under the Universal Copyright Convention is the lifetime of the author and 25 years after his death. In our country, it is 50 years. (Intellectual property rights mainly refer to copyrights, trademark rights, patent rights, etc.).
Universal Copyright Convention
Article 1 Contracting States undertake to copyright literary, scientific and artistic works - including literary, musical, dramatic and cinematic works, as well as paintings, sculptures and Sculpture - full and effective protection of the rights of authors and other copyright holders.
Article 2
(1) Works published by nationals of any Contracting State and works first published in that country shall enjoy the privileges granted by other Contracting States to their nationals in all other Contracting States. equal protection for works first published in this country, and the protection granted by this Convention.
(2) Unpublished works of nationals of any Contracting State shall enjoy the same protection in other Contracting States as unpublished works of nationals of those other Contracting States, as well as the protection granted by this Convention.
(3) For the purpose of implementing this Convention, any Contracting State may treat any person who has settled in that country as its national in accordance with its domestic law.
Article 3
(1) Any Contracting State shall perform procedures required by its domestic law - such as submitting samples, registering, publishing advertisements, notarizing documents, paying fees, or Domestic production and publication of the country, etc. - As a condition for copyright protection, all works protected under this Convention and first published outside the territory of the country and whose authors are not nationals of the country shall be deemed to meet the above requirements, as long as the author has Or all volumes of works authorized to be published by the copyright owner, starting from the date of first publication, shall be marked with the symbol ?, and the name of the copyright owner, year of first publication, etc. shall be indicated. The method and position of the marking shall draw attention to to copyright requirements.
(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article shall not prevent any Contracting State from imposing formalities or other conditions for the acquisition and enjoyment of copyright in works first published in that country or in works published anywhere by its nationals requirements.
(3) The provisions of paragraph (1) of this article shall not prevent any contracting state from making the following provisions: Anyone requesting judicial relief must fulfill procedural requirements when prosecuting, such as the prosecutor must file a lawsuit through his or her own country. The defender appears in court, or the plaintiff delivers the disputed work to the court or administrative authority, or both; however, failure to fulfill the above procedural requirements shall not affect the validity of the copyright, and if the place where copyright protection is requested is Nationals of a State do not make such demands, nor shall such demands be imposed on nationals of another Contracting State.
(4) Contracting countries shall take legal measures to protect unpublished works of nationals of other contracting countries without having to perform formalities.
(5) If a Contracting State grants more than one term of copyright protection and the first term is longer than one of the minimum periods specified in Article 4, the second or subsequent The term of copyright shall not require that country to implement the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article.
Article 4
(1) In accordance with the provisions of Article 2 and this Article, the term of copyright protection for a work shall be determined by the law of the Contracting State where the work requires copyright protection. .
(2) A. The term of protection for works protected by this Convention shall not be less than the lifetime of the author and twenty-five years after his death. However, if any Contracting State, on the date when this Convention enters into force for that State, has fixed the term of protection for certain categories of works as a period beginning with the first publication of the work, that Contracting State shall be entitled to maintain its provisions and may extend those The provisions are extended to other types of works. For all works of these kinds, the term of copyright protection shall not be less than twenty-five years from the date of first publication.
B. Any Contracting State that has not determined the term of protection based on the lifetime of the author on the date of entry into force of this Convention for that State shall be entitled, as the case may be, from the date of first publication of the work or from the date of registration before publication. To calculate the copyright protection period, as long as it is calculated from the date of first publication of the work or the date of registration before publication, as the case may be, the copyright protection period shall not be less than twenty-five years.
C. If the laws of a Contracting State permit two or more consecutive periods of protection, the first period of protection shall not be shorter than one of the minimum periods specified in paragraphs A and B of this paragraph. .