Photographic work copyright registration

Legal analysis: 1. The applicant for the registration of photographic works shall be the author, other citizens who enjoy copyright, legal persons or unincorporated units, exclusive rights holders and their agents. The units that accept applications are provincial and national copyright bureaus. The copyright bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be responsible for the registration of works by authors or other copyright owners within their respective jurisdictions. The National Copyright Administration is responsible for the work registration of authors or other copyright owners in foreign countries and Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macao.

2. When applying for registration of works, authors and other copyright owners shall show their identity certificates, provide certificates (photos) indicating the ownership and rights protection of works, fill in the registration form of works and pay the registration fee. Other copyright owners who apply for the registration of their works shall also produce certificates indicating the identity of the copyright owner (for example, the heir shall produce the identity certificate of the heir; The client of commissioned works shall present the entrustment contract). The owner of the exclusive right shall produce the contract to prove that he enjoys the exclusive right. Product registration.

3. After the registered works are verified by the works registration agency, the works registration agency will issue the works registration certificate. The verification period of the registration authority is one month, counting from the date when the registration authority receives all the application materials submitted by the applicant.

Legal basis: Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 15 The director, screenwriter, lyricist, composer and photographer of a film, television or video work shall enjoy the right of authorship, and other copyrights shall be enjoyed by the producer of the film, television or video work. Authors of scripts, music and other works that can be used independently. Movies, television and video works have the right to exercise their copyright alone.