How do I get a Copyright Registration in Vietnam?

Copyright is the right of the organization or individual author of the work created or owned by the author. Creating a valuable work is in fact a large company, public and financial source. A copyright registration certificate is an important document and demonstrates who is the work of the work. Therefore, registering to protect copyright means declaring legal rights to the work, avoiding unauthorized use of illegal profits. NP Law then introduces the Certificate of Registration of Authors and works of legality in connection with the Certificate and Noted.

Definition and contents of copyright registration certificates

A copyright registration certificate is a document issued by a competent state agency to the author, the chairman of the authors' council, the chairman of the authors' council, and the recognition of works, works and owners of copyright.

The following contents

• Name of product;
• Photos of prodcut;
• Name, address, nationality, ID number or citizen's identity card, copyright owner;
• Number and date of copyright registration certificate.

Validity of copyright registration certificates

Time for copyright protection

Copyright includes 02 rights groups: personal rights and property rights. The term of protection begins from the moment the work is created and showed the difference. The term of protection depends on the group and type of work, specifically as follows:

• Indefinitely protected personal rights cases include: Name rights for works; the right to stand by the name or pseudonym on the work,  pseudonym when the work is published or used; the right to protect the entire work, not to allow others to repair, cut or misrepresent unusual works is the estate and prestige of the author.
• The right to publish works, allowing people to be fair and works of property can be protected as follows:
• Film, Photographic, Applied Fine Arts, Anonymous Works: The term of protection is 75 years from the first publication; including film, photography, and applied art that are not parks for a period of 25 years, since the work is defined, the protection period is 100 years since the work was shaped.
• For anonymous works, information about the author and other types of works remains: The term of protection is the life of the author and the next 50 years of the year the author dies; in case the work is co-authored, the term of protection terminates in the 50th year after the last year of co-author's death.
• The timeline of protection terminates at 24:00 on December 31 of the year of termination of the term of copyright protection.

Now, the Copyright Signing Certificate has the content of the time to protect the copyright.

Validity of copyright registration certificates

Organizations, individuals and certificates of registration do not mean proving the copyright of when there is a dispute, unless there is evidence to the contrary.

Copyright registration certificates are valid throughout the territory of Vietnam. 

Granting, granting, rescinding the validity of copyright registration certificates

Cases of cooperation with copyright registration certificates: Certificates of signing of authors of works torn or torn.

Cases of change of copyright registration certificates: It is possible to change the president of the city People's Council or change it through the voice, owner of copyright or work.

Cases of rescind of copyright registration certificates

• Copyright registration certificates are not copyright authors or copyright owners.
• The registered work is not the author of copyright protection.

Competence to grant, renew or cancel the validity of copyright registration certificates: Copyright Office of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

All the above information is NP Law's sharing of contents related to the Copyright Registration Certificate. For the best advice and support on procedures related to registration and protection of copyright in particular and intellectual property rights in general, please contact NPLaw.

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