In Article 21 of the Copyright Law, the protection period of citizens' right of publication and the rights stipulated in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is the author's life and 50 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.
Therefore, it is necessary to pay for publishing Jin Yong's novels or adapting them into TV dramas.