What is copyright?

Copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the author's exclusive rights to the literary, artistic and scientific and technological works he created. Copyright is a civil right enjoyed by citizens and legal persons according to law and belongs to intangible property rights.

Personal rights in copyright law are different from those in civil law. This right is inseparable from the author's personal life. China's Copyright Law stipulates that a legal person or an unincorporated entity can be the subject of copyright, and naturally recognizes that a legal person or an unincorporated entity can enjoy personal rights. However, this issue is very different in the copyright laws of various countries in the world.

Most countries that protect the author's personal rights stipulate in the copyright law that only natural persons can become authors, that is, only natural persons can enjoy personal rights. Because the personal right is the reflection of the author's personality, it is a recent thing to admit that a legal person has the will.

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Originated in China.

The earliest use of the word "copyright" in Chinese began with the first copyright law in China, the Copyright Law of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing government explained: "There are laws that are not called copyright laws, but called copyright laws. There are more copyrights than licenses, which protect people who are publishing, but not as good as the creators of publications; It also refers to books and pictures, not sculptures and other works of art, so it is more appropriate to use the name copyright. "

Since then, China's copyright law has followed this name. At present, the word copyright is usually used in China society, but the official title of copyright-related rights in Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province is no longer used.

In People's Republic of China (PRC), all works of China citizens, legal persons or unincorporated units, whether published or not, enjoy copyright; Foreigners' works are first published in China, and they also enjoy copyright according to the copyright law; Works published by foreigners outside China shall enjoy copyright according to the agreement signed between the country to which they belong and China or the international treaties to which * * * is a party.

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