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WHAT IS AUTOMATIC COPYRIGHT AND HOW TO
REGISTER
COPYRIGHT
When you create an original artistic work, you are protected by
copyright. Nobody apart from you has the right to make the work public
or reproduce it. In EU countries, copyright protects your intellectual
property until 70 years after your death or 70 years after the death of
the last surviving author, in the case of a work of joint authorship.
Outside of the EU, in any country which signed the Berne Convention,
the duration of copyright protection can vary but it lasts until at least
50 years after the author's death. If you want to prove the existence of
your work at a certain point in time, a registration can be useful.
Copyright protection grants you the following exclusive rights:
Economic rights – guaranteeing you have control over your work and
remuneration for its use through selling or licensing
Moral rights – usually protecting your rights to claim authorship
(right of attribution) and to refuse a modification of your work (right
of integrity)
If you create literary, scientific and artistic work, you automatically
have copyright protection, which starts from the moment you
create your work, so you don't need to go through any formal
application process.
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