How to apply for copyright? How long will it take? Can copyright be expedited? How long is the copyright valid?

1. The copyright application can be handled by itself, or it can be entrusted to the agency of the National Copyright Administration. The process is to fill in the application online, print and seal it, submit the application, accept it, review it (30 working days), issue the certificate and get it.

Second, the copyright application can be expedited, and the fees are different at different times.

3. Article 6 of Decree No.359 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Copyright Law stipulates that copyright shall be generated from the date when the creation of the work is completed.

Scope of periodic protection of works Article 2 1 of Presidential Decree No.26 of Copyright Law stipulates that the protection period of citizens' right to publish works and the rights stipulated in Items (5) to (17) 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 50th 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.

The term of protection for the works of a legal person or other organization and the works in which a legal person or other organization enjoys the right to publish and the rights stipulated in Items (5) to (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works, but the works have not been published within fifty years after the completion of the creation.

For cinematographic works and works created by similar cinematographic or photographic methods, the term of protection of the right of publication and the rights specified in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works. However, if the work is not published within 50 years after the creation is completed, this law will no longer protect it.