According to Chinese laws, heritage includes citizens' copyright (copyright) and property rights in patent rights. Generally speaking, the successor's inheritance of copyright is mainly to inherit the property right of the work within the remaining effective period after the author's death. During the period from the author's death to the expiration of copyright, the heirs can enjoy the property rights of the original author's works. Personal rights of works are exclusive rights and cannot be inherited.
Copyright application process:
1, materials submitted by the applicant;
2, the registration authority within 3 working days to review whether the materials are complete;
3. The applicant pays the registration application fee;
4, the registration authority issued a notice of acceptance after receiving the fee;
5, the registration authority within 30 days after accepting the application materials, the form of audit is correct;
6. The registration authority shall serve the applicant with a notice of issuance of registration certificate or a notice of disapproval of registration;
7. The applicant receives the registration certificate or returns 50% of the application fee.
To sum up, intellectual property is the result of human wisdom and belongs to an intangible property. Intellectual property is composed of many branches, and copyright belongs to one of them. Property rights such as reproduction and distribution in copyright can be inherited, but personal rights such as signature cannot be inherited because of their personal exclusiveness.
Legal basis:
Article 122 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC)
Legacy is the personal legal property left by a natural person when he dies.
An inheritance that cannot be inherited according to the law or the nature of the inheritance shall not be inherited.
Article 10 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
Copyright includes the following personal rights and property rights:
(a) the right to publish, that is, the right to decide whether the work is open;
(2) the right of signature, that is, the right to indicate the identity of the author and sign his name on the work;
(3) the right to modify, that is, the right to modify or authorize others to modify a work;
(four) 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 means of printing, photocopying, rubbing, audio recording, video recording, copying, remaking and digitization;
(6) the right of distribution, that is, the right to provide the original or duplicate of a work to the public by way of sale or gift;
(seven) the right to rent, that is, the right to temporarily license others to use the original or copy of audio-visual works and computer software, except that computer software is not the main object of rent;
(8) The right to exhibit, that is, the right to publicly display the original or duplicate of an artistic work or photographic work;
(nine) 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 to show, that is, the right to publicly copy art, photography, audio-visual works, etc. Through projectors, slide projectors and other technical equipment;
(11) The right to broadcast, that is, the right to publicly broadcast or replay a work by wired or wireless means, and the right to broadcast a work 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 paragraph;
(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;
(thirteen) the right to shoot, that is, the right to fix the work on the carrier by shooting audio-visual works;
(14) the right of adaptation, that is, the right to change a work and create a new work with originality;
(15) the right to translation, that is, the right to convert a work from one language into another;
(16) the right of assembly, that is, the right to assemble a work or fragments of a work into a new work through selection or arrangement;
(seventeen) other rights that should be enjoyed by the copyright owner.
The copyright owner may license others to exercise the rights specified in Items (5) to (17) of the preceding paragraph and get remuneration in accordance with the agreement or the relevant provisions of this Law.
The copyright owner may, in accordance with the agreement or the relevant provisions of this law, transfer all or part of the rights specified in Items (5) to (17) of the first paragraph of this article and get remuneration.