Is current news copyrighted?

Legal analysis: Current affairs news is not protected by copyright law, because it is the current affairs news stipulated in Article 5 of China's copyright law, and it does not belong to our country. Within the scope of copyright protection, it is mainly because such an implementation behavior is not creative and only describes some specific matters that happened at that time.

Legal basis: Article 3 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) The term "works" as mentioned in this Law refers to intellectual achievements that are original and can be expressed in a certain form in the fields of literature, art and science, including:

(1) Written works;

(2) Oral works;

(3) Music, drama, folk art, dance and acrobatic works;

(4) Artistic and architectural works;

(5) Photographic works;

(6) Audio-visual works;

(seven) engineering design drawings, product design drawings, maps, schematic diagrams and other graphic works and model works;

(8) Computer software;

(9) other intellectual achievements that meet the characteristics of the work.