Our country’s law stipulates how many years of rights protection period citizens have for publishing works.

Chinese law stipulates that citizens have a 50-year rights protection period for publishing works.

Except for special provisions. For example, the protection period of an author's right of signature, right of modification, and right of protecting the integrity of the work is not 50 years, but should be protected permanently from the date the author is known.

Copyright holders include:

1. Author;

2. Other natural persons, legal persons or unincorporated organizations that enjoy copyright in accordance with this law.

Copyright includes the following personal rights and property rights:

1. The right of publication, which is the right to decide whether a work will be made public;

2. The right of signature, which indicates the identity of the author , the right to sign on the work;

3. The right to modify, that is, the right to modify or authorize others to modify the work;

4. The right to protect the integrity of the work, that is, to protect the work from distortion , the right to tamper with;

5. The right to reproduce, that is, the right to make one or more copies of the work by printing, copying, rubbing, recording, videotaping, ripping, remaking, digitizing, etc.;

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6. Distribution rights, that is, the right to provide originals or copies of works to the public by selling or donating them;

7. Rental rights, that is, allowing others to temporarily use audio-visual works and computers for a fee The right to originals or copies of software, except for computer software that is not the main subject of rental;

8. Exhibition rights, that is, the right to publicly display originals or copies of fine arts and photographic works;

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9. Performance rights, that is, the right to publicly perform works, and the right to publicly broadcast works through various means;

10. Screening rights, that is, the public reproduction of fine arts through projectors, slide projectors and other technical equipment , photography, audio-visual works, etc.;

11. Broadcasting rights, that is, the public dissemination or rebroadcast of works by wired or wireless means, and the use of loudspeakers or other similar tools for transmitting symbols, sounds, and images to The right of the public to disseminate broadcast works, but does not include the rights specified in Item 12 of this paragraph;

12. The right to disseminate information network, that is, to provide the public with wired or wireless means so that the public can The right to obtain the work at the selected time and place;

13. Filming right, that is, the right to fix the work on a carrier by filming an audiovisual work;

14. Adaptation right , that is, the right to change a work and create a new original work;

15. Translation right, that is, the right to convert a work from one language into another language;

< p>16. The right of compilation, that is, the right to assemble works or fragments of works into new works through selection or arrangement;

17. Other rights that should be enjoyed by the copyright holder.

To sum up, our country’s law stipulates that citizens have a 50-year rights protection period for published works. Except where there are special provisions. For example, the protection period of an author's right of signature, right of modification, and right of protecting the integrity of the work is not 50 years, but should be protected permanently from the date the author is known.

Legal basis:

Article 22 of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China

The author's right of signature, right of modification, protection of works The term of protection of the right of integrity is unlimited.

Article 23

The right to publish the works of a natural person and the rights stipulated in Items 5 to 17 of Article 10, Paragraph 1 of this Law shall be protected for a period of The lifetime of the author and fifty years after his death shall end on December 31st of the fiftieth year after the death of the author; if it is a collaborative work, the endpoint shall be December 31st of the fiftieth year after the death of the last author.

Works and copyrights (except for the right of authorship) of legal persons or unincorporated organizations. For professional works owned by legal persons or unincorporated organizations, the protection period for the right of publication is fifty years, ending on the third day after the creation of the work. December 31 of the fiftieth year; the protection period of the rights specified in items 5 to 17 of Article 10, Paragraph 1 of this Law is fifty years, ending on December 31 of the fiftieth year after the work was first published. date, but if the work has not been published within fifty years since its creation, this law will no longer protect it.

The protection period for the right of publication of audiovisual works is fifty years, ending on December 31 of the fiftieth year after the creation of the work; Article 10, Paragraph 1, Items 5 to 1 of this Law The protection period of the rights stipulated in the 17 items is fifty years, ending on December 31, the fiftieth year after the work was first published. However, if the work has not been published within fifty years from the completion of its creation, this law will no longer protect it.

Article 37

Publishers have the right to permit or prohibit others from using the layout designs of books and periodicals they publish.

The protection period of the rights stipulated in the preceding paragraph is ten years, ending on December 31 of the tenth year after the books or periodicals using the format design are first published.