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List of copyright duration by country

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Summary

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Worldwide map of copyright term length

Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms "copy" and "publish" are quite broad. They include copying in electronic form, making translated versions, creating a television program based on the work, and putting the work on the Internet. A work is protected by copyright if it is a literary or artistic work. This general expression covers almost all products of creative and original effort. Copyright protects only the specific expression of an idea, not the idea itself. A collection of facts may be copyrighted if there was creative activity involved in compiling the collection. Several countries provide separate protection for collections of facts that qualify as "databases", but that provision is not considered copyright. Copyright protection is automatic upon creation of the work. In some countries, registration with a copyright office has additional benefits, such as the ability to sue, or to receive more money in damages. When a work's copyright term ends, the work passes into the public domain.

Berne Convention

The Berne Convention stipulates that the duration of the term for copyright protection is the life of the author plus at least 50 years after their death. For some categories of works, the minimum duration is shorter: for example, the minimum term for applied art is 25 years, movies have a minimum term of 50 years. Most countries have opted for a longer term of protection, as permitted.

Under the Convention, the duration of copyright depends on the length of the author's life. Berne specifies that copyright exists a minimum of 50 years after the author's death, while a number of countries, including members of the European Union and the United States, have extended that to 70 years after the author's death. A small number of countries have extended copyright even further, with Mexico having the longest term at 100 years after the author's death.

United States

In 1989, the Berne Convention became effective in the U.S. Since that date, U.S. authors obtain copyright on their works automatically, with registration no longer required. However, many U.S. texts on copyright have not been updated and still echo the old registration principle.

Copyright registration remains available in the U.S. To initiate a lawsuit against an infringer, registration is still required. Registration offers the potential of statutory damages from the infringer, rather than only actual damages.

European Union

All countries within the European Union are signatory states of the Berne Convention. Additionally, Copyright in the European Union is regulated through European Directives.

The member states of the European Union have, following a directive, increased the term to life of the author plus 70 years after their death. Although this was not the original intention, the extension applies retroactively; this had the effect that works that had ended up in the public domain because the author was dead for 50 years, received an additional twenty years of protection.

European countries follow the principle that copyright protection is granted automatically upon creation of the work. This principle was first established in the Berne Convention (1886), and Article 5 of the Convention expressly forbids any member country to require formal action for copyright protection.

Copyright duration by country

Countries and respective copyright terms, with length of standard copyright in years are listed. Entries for non-country entities are included: the European Union, Berne Convention, and the Universal Copyright Convention, which set minimum terms for their member states or signatories. The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), though not included, requires a copyright length of at least 50 years after death.

Legend

0, has no copyright = Not copyrighted at all
Life + xx years = Copyrighted for authors' lifetime plus xx years after their deaths
xx years after publication, creation, etc. = copyrighted for xx years since publication, creation, etc., of works
Until year end = Copyrighted until the end of a calendar year, i.e. 31 December, unless otherwise specified
Berne = Country has signed the Berne Convention, see Berne in the "Countries, ..." column
TRIPS = The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property (IP) regulation as applied to nationals of other WTO Members. This also indicates that this country has at least a minimum of 50 years after the death of the creator until the copyright expires.
WCT = The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty, (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT), is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996.

Table

Countries, areas, and entities	Copyright terms based on authors' deaths{{efn	name=term	Terms of protection were taken from a variety of sources, including WIPO, UNESCO and the University of Pennsylvania (see External links). Where no more specific information is available for a country, an indication of its probable minimum copyright term can be gained from its status as:	Copyright terms based on publication and creation dates	Until year end?
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Afghanistan A	url=http://moj.gov.af/content/files/OfficialGazette/0901/OG_0956.pdf	title=Copyright law of Afghanistan-22/07/2008	access-date=7 March 2012	archive-date=26 April 2012	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426052618/http://moj.gov.af/content/files/OfficialGazette/0901/OG_0956.pdf	url-status=live }}	50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)	Yes (Afghan calendar)
Albania	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/20	archive-url=https://archive.today/20071030185836/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/al/al001en.html	url-status=dead	archive-date=30 October 2007	title=Law No. 7564, dated April 19, 1992, on Copyright	date=1 May 2008	access-date=1 February 2017}}	Art. 18}}	Art. 21}}
Algeria	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/fr/legislation/details/1194	archive-url=https://archive.today/20080501103556/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/fr/dz/dz001fr.html	url-status=dead	archive-date=1 May 2008	title=DZ001: Droits d'auteur, Ordonnance, 19/07/2003 – 1424, n° 03-05	date=1 May 2008	access-date=1 February 2017}}	Arts. 56–58, 60}}	Arts. 54, 56–58, 60}}
Andorra	Life + 70 years	Art. 18(3)}}	Art. 18(8)}}
Angola	Life + 70 years		Yes
Anguilla	url=http://www.iprfirm.com/anguilla/introduction.htm	title=IP laws revised – Anguilla	publisher=Iprfirm.com	access-date=8 June 2012	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303001229/http://www.iprfirm.com/anguilla/introduction.htm	archive-date=3 March 2012 }}	50 years from the death of the author, of the last surviving author for works with more than one author.
Antigua and Barbuda	url=http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/ag_copyright_2002_en.pdf?URL_ID=30468&filename=11428561303ag_copyright_2002_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=1272593&name=ag_copyright_2002_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	title=Copyright Act, 2002	access-date=17 February 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217203146/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/ag_copyright_2002_en.pdf?URL_ID=30468&filename=11428561303ag_copyright_2002_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=1272593&name=ag_copyright_2002_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	archive-date=17 February 2016	url-status=dead }}	s. 10(2), (4), 11(1)}}	s. 10(1), 10(2), (4), 11(1), 12(1), 13}}
Argentina Argentina	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/82	archive-url=https://archive.today/20050221010722/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/ar/ar012en.html	url-status=dead	archive-date=21 February 2005	title=Copyright, Law (Consolidation), 28/09/1933 (14/10/1998), No. 11.723 (No. 25.036)	date=21 February 2005	access-date=1 February 2017}}	Art. 8}}
Phonograms: 70 years from first publication.
Photographs: 20 years from first publication.
Cinematographic works: 50 years after death of the last survivor among the producer, the director, the screenplay writer or the composer (for musical comedies).	Art. 5}}
Armenia	url=http://www.aipa.am/en/legislation/15/2/#pin	title=Legislation – Intellectual Property Agency	first=Helix Consulting	last=LLC	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=18 April 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418151048/http://www.aipa.am/en/legislation/15/2/#pin	url-status=live}}	Art. 37}}	Art. 37}}
Aruba	Life + 50 years(wikisource)
Australia Australia (including external territories)	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161125143839/http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/	date=25 November 2016 }} (Australia)	s. 93, 94}}	ss. 93–96}}
Austria	Life + 70 years	§ 61}}	§ 64}}
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	url=https://wipolex-res.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/az/az102en.pdf	title=Law on Copyright and Related Rights of 5 June 1996, as last amended 30 April 2013	access-date=8 January 2022}}	at=Art. 25, 26}}	Art. 25, 26}}
Bahamas B	Berne
Bahrain	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/506011	archive-url=https://archive.today/20041112080136/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/bh/bh001en.html	url-status=dead	title=Copyright, Decree, 07/06/1993 - 1413, No. 10	archive-date=12 November 2004 }}	Art. 31(2)(a–d)}}
Bangladesh Bangladesh	url=http://copyrightoffice.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/copyrightoffice.portal.gov.bd/law/121de2e9_9bc9_4944_bfef_0a12af0864a5/Copyright,2000(1)%20(2).pdf	title=Copy Right Act, 2000	access-date=31 May 2019	archive-date=5 August 2019	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805194130/http://copyrightoffice.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/copyrightoffice.portal.gov.bd/law/121de2e9_9bc9_4944_bfef_0a12af0864a5/Copyright,2000(1)%20(2).pdf	url-status=live }}	s. 26}} sound recordings, photographs, computer programmes or works of the Government, local authority or an international organisation)	s. 24, 26, 27, 28, 28A, ss. 30–32}}
Barbados	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/319	archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805224132/http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/details.jsp?id=319	url-status=dead	title=Copyright, Act, 05/03/1998, No. 4	archive-date=5 August 2012}}	s. 10(3)}}	ss. 10–13}}
Belarus	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/22302	archive-url=https://archive.today/20050321142536/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/by/by003en.html	url-status=dead	title=Law of the Republic of Belarus on Copyright and Related Rights	archive-date=21 March 2005 }}	Art. 22(2)}}	Arts. 22(4), 38(4)}}
Belgium	url=http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/loi/2013/02/28/2013A11134/justel	title=Code de droit économique	publisher=Justel	access-date=24 September 2020	archive-date=31 January 2020	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131032458/http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/loi/2013/02/28/2013A11134/justel	url-status=live}}		Yes
Belize	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812064744/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=125463	date=12 August 2014 }}	50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)
50 years from publication (sound recording or film)
50 years from publication (computer-generated work)	Yes
Benin	Life + 50 years
Bermuda	Life + 50 years
Berne Convention signatories	Life + 50 years	50 years from publication or if not shown 50 years from creation (cinematographic works)	Yes
Bhutan	Life + 50 years
Bolivia	Life + 50 years
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Life + 70 years
Botswana	Berne, TRIPS, WCT
Brazil	Life + 70 years		url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=514	title=Brazil: Law No. 9.610 of February 19, 1998 (Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights)	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=3 December 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203141858/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=514	url-status=live}}
British Indian Ocean Territory	Life + 70 Years
British Virgin Islands	Life + 70 Years
Brunei	Life + 50 years
Bulgaria	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209085512/http://lex.bg/laws/ldoc.php?IDNA=2133094401	date=9 February 2008 }}
Burkina Faso	Life + 70 years
Burundi	Life + 50 years	50 years from publication (phonograms)
Cambodia C	Life + 50 years
Cameroon Cameroon	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215085933/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/profile.jsp?code=CM	date=15 December 2014 }}
Canada Canada	Life + 70 years (except certain posthumous works)	75 years from publication or 100 years from creation, whichever is shorter (anonymous works). There is no revival of copyright in any work in which the copyright had expired before the coming into force in January 2023 of the extension of the term of copyright from 50 to 70 years.	Yes
Cape Verde	Life + 50 years
Cayman Islands	Life + 70 years
Central African Republic	Berne, TRIPS
Chad	Berne, TRIPS
Chile Chile	Life + 70 years
China China (mainland only)	para. 1}}	paras. 2–3}}	Yes
Colombia	url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=872	title=Colombia: Law No. 23 of 1982 (January 28) – On Copyright	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=3 July 2017	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703034853/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=872	url-status=live}}	Art. 37}}	Art. 28}}
Comoros	Berne
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7511	title=Ordinance-Law No. 86-033 of April 5, 1986	access-date=4 October 2019	archive-date=3 October 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003164954/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7511	url-status=live }}	Art. 77}}
50 years from publication (anonymous, pseudonymous or posthumous work)	Art. 76}}
Congo, Republic of the	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812070434/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=152625	date=12 August 2014 }}	Art. 65}}
Costa Rica	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928185303/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=11316	date=28 September 2014 }} (as last amended by Law No. 8834 of 3 May 2010)
Côte d'Ivoire	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/793	archive-url=https://archive.today/20041130205636/https://wipolex-resources-eu-central-1-358922420655.s3.amazonaws.com/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/ci/ci001en.pdf	url-status=dead	title=Law No. 96-564 of July 25, 1996 on the Protection of Intellectual Works and the Rights of Authors, Performers and Phonogram and Videogram Producers	archive-date=30 November 2004 }}	Art. 45(3)(a–c)}}	Art. 45}}
Croatia	Life + 70 years
Cuba	Life + 50 years
Curaçao	Life + 50 years
Cyprus	Life + 70 years
(EU, WCT)
Czech Republic	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/22298	archive-url=https://archive.today/20041128030156/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/cz/cz029en.html	url-status=dead	title=Copyright, Act, 07/04/2000, No. 121	archive-date=28 November 2004 }}	Art. 27(3)}}	Art. 27(7)}}
Denmark D	Life + 70 years
Djibouti	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/9086	title= Law No. 154/AN/06 of July 23, 2006 on the Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights	access-date=16 November 2022 }}	Art. 15}}
For a photographic work or work of applied art, 25 years from the production of the work	Art. 12}}
Dominica	Life + 70 years
Dominican Republic	Life + 70 years
Ecuador E	Life + 70 years
Egypt Egypt	Life + 50 years
El Salvador	title=Art. 90. Ley de Propiedad Intelectual de 15 de agosto de 2024.	url=https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/sites/default/files/documents/decretos/D214AD9F-9A48-4A9C-893C-7E063FE7C4A9.pdf	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920230430/https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/sites/default/files/documents/decretos/D214AD9F-9A48-4A9C-893C-7E063FE7C4A9.pdf	archive-date=2024-09-20	access-date=2025-10-23	website=www.asamblea.gob.sv}}	70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)
Equatorial Guinea	Life + 80 years. However, there are additional expiration rules in Article 38 of the Main Equatorial Guinea Intellectual Property Law which may affect this.
Eritrea	Life only, but at least 50 years since publication, whichever is longer (except posthumous works)	Art. 1672}}
Estonia	title=Autoriõiguse seadus (AutÕS)	language=et	trans-title=Copyright Act (effective from 28 November 2018)	publisher=Riigi Teataja	location=Estonia	date=28 November 2018	url=https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/127112018003	access-date=6 December 2018	archive-date=6 December 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102509/https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/127112018003	url-status=live }}	§ 40}}	§ 43}}
Eswatini	Life + 50 years
Ethiopia	Life + 50 years
European Union Members	url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0116:EN:NOT	title=EUR-Lex – 32006L0116 – EN – EUR-Lex	date=12 December 2006	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=22 October 2013	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022050952/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0116:EN:NOT	url-status=live}}	Art. 1 (3), (6)}}	Art. 8 (1)}}
Fiji F	Life + 50 years
Finland	Life + 70 years	url=https://finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1961/en19610404?search%5Btype%5D=pika&search%5Bkieli%5D%5B0%5D=en&search%5Bpika%5D=copyright	title=Copyright, Act, 08/07/1961, amendments followed up to 22/05/2015	access-date=25 May 2021	archive-date=25 May 2021	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525040328/https://finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1961/en19610404?search%5Btype%5D=pika&search%5Bkieli%5D%5B0%5D=en&search%5Bpika%5D=copyright	url-status=dead }}	Art. 43}}
France France	Life + 70 years (except posthumous works published after this term)	Art. L123-3}}	Arts. L123-1, L123-3, L123-4,
but not Arts. L123-8 or L123-9}}
Gabon G	Berne, TRIPS, WCT
Gambia	Life + 50 years
Georgia	Life + 70 years
Germany Germany	Life + 70 years	25 years from first publication or first public performance if copyright has expired before such publication or performance, or if the work has never been protected in Germany and the author died more than 70 years before the first publication	Yes
Ghana	Life + 70 years
Greece Greece	Life + 70 years	Art. 31(1)}}	Arts. 29, 31}}
Grenada	Berne, TRIPS
Guatemala	Art. 43}}	Arts. 44, 45, 47}}	Art. 48}}
Guinea	TRIPS, WCT
Guinea-Bissau	Berne, TRIPS
Guyana	Life + 50 years
Haiti H	Berne, TRIPS
Honduras	Life + 75 years	url=http://www.cerlalc.org/derechoenlinea/dar/leyes_reglamentos/Honduras/Ley_16.htm	title=Art. 30, Decreto Ley 16 2006: Implementación del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre la República Dominicana, Centroamérica y Estados Unidos	publisher=Cerlalc.org	year=2006	access-date=8 June 2012	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219022038/http://www.cerlalc.org/derechoenlinea/dar/leyes_reglamentos/Honduras/Ley_16.htm	archive-date=19 February 2012	url-status=dead }}	Yes
Hong Kong Hong Kong	url=http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_ind.nsf/e1bf50c09a33d3dc482564840019d2f4/8c9a7f494889b108482564dc002d834b?OpenDocument	title=Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528)	publisher=Government of Hong Kong	date=30 June 1997	access-date=8 June 2012	archive-date=3 September 2006	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903021747/http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_ind.nsf/e1bf50c09a33d3dc482564840019d2f4/8c9a7f494889b108482564dc002d834b?OpenDocument	url-status=live }}	s. 17(3)}}	s. 17, 18, 20, 21}}
Hungary	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404222047/http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/hu/hu084en.pdf	date=4 April 2016 }}, wipo.int (access-date: 18 January 2016)	s. 31(3)}}
s. 31(2)}}
Iceland I	Life + 70 years
India India	Life + 60 years (except posthumous works)	ss. 24–27, 28A, 29}}	ss. 22, 24–27, 28A, 29}}
Indonesia	website=Indonesia IP Laws and Treaties	title=Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 28 of September 16, 2014, on Copyright	editor=World Intellectual Property Organization	url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=15600	access-date=10 March 2017	archive-date=12 March 2017	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312045638/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=15600	url-status=live }}	70 years from the author's death for books, musics, etc.
50 years after publication for cinematography, photograph, etc.
Iran	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605215316/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7708	date=5 June 2011 }}	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605215316/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7708	date=5 June 2011 }}
Iraq	Life + 50 years	5 years from publication (photographic works)
Ireland Ireland	Life + 70 years		Yes
Israel	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514024624/http://www.tau.ac.il/law/members/birnhack/IsraeliCopyrightAct2007.pdf	date=14 May 2011 }} Pre-2007: Crown Law: Art. 5(4), Copyright Ordinance 1924	50 years from publication (photographs created until May 2007)	Yes
Italy	Art. 25}}	Art. 27}}	s. 25, s. 32ter}}
JamaicaJ	Life + 95 years
(for authors that died in 1962 or later)	s. 10(2), s. 13A}}	s. 10, 11, 12, 13}}
Japan Japan J	url=https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/8491760/japan-law-extending-copyright-protection-period-for	title=Japan Law Extending Copyright Protection Period for Rightsholders Goes Live	magazine=Billboard	access-date=31 December 2018	archive-date=1 January 2019	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101011347/https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/8491760/japan-law-extending-copyright-protection-period-for	url-status=live }}	Art. 54(1)}}	Art. 57}}
Jordan Jordan	Life + 50 years
Kazakhstan K	Life + 50 years
Kenya	format=PDF	url=http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/ke_copyright_2001_en.pdf?URL_ID=30229&filename=11416612103ke_copyright_2001_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=428054&name=ke_copyright_2001_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	title=Copyright Act, 2001	access-date=8 January 2016	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160108161936/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/ke_copyright_2001_en.pdf?URL_ID=30229&filename=11416612103ke_copyright_2001_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=428054&name=ke_copyright_2001_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	archive-date=8 January 2016	url-status=dead }}	s. 23(2)}}	s. 23}}
Kiribati	Life + 50 years
Kosovo	Life only		Yes
North Korea	Copyright Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea]], discussed at:	Works authored by "an institution, enterprise or organization", 50 years from publication
South Korea	title=Treaties Laws & Treaties	publisher=.or.kr	location=South Korea	url=https://www.copyright.or.kr/eng/laws-and-treaties/copyright-law/chapter02/section04.do	access-date=9 January 2019	archive-date=10 January 2019	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110183448/https://www.copyright.or.kr/eng/laws-and-treaties/copyright-law/chapter02/section04.do	url-status=live }}	Art. 40}}
Art. 44}}
Kuwait	TRIPS
Kyrgyzstan	Life + 50 years
Laos L	Life + 50 years	50 years after making available. Also:
• Anonymous/pseudonymous work: 50 years from the date the work was made available to the public;
• Cinematographic work: 50 years from making available, failing that, 50 years from making;
• Applied art: 25 years from date of creation.

Latvia	title=LV017: Copyright, Act, 06/04/2000	publisher=WIPO	date=6 April 2000	url= https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/21953	url-status=live	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080410092708/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/lv/lv017en.html	archive-date=10 April 2008}}
[Life + 50 years]	70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)	Art. 38}}
Lebanon	Life + 50 years	50 years after lawful publication; failing publication, 50 years after work completion. Also:
• economic rights: 50 years from performance.
• moral rights: perpetual
• broadcasters' rights: 20 years after first broadcasting.
Lesotho	Life + 50 years
Liberia	Life + 50 years
Libya	Life + 25 years with 50-year minimum (as of 1968; may have changed since)
Liechtenstein	Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years]
Lithuania	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017161022/https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/TAIS.24740	date=17 October 2021 }}
Luxembourg	Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years]Art. 9, Law of 18 April 2001
Macau M	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/500838	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209204639/https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/500838	url-status=	title=Decreto-Lei n.º 43/99/M de 16 de Agosto, republicação pela Lei n.º 5/2012	trans-title = Decree-Law 43/99/M of 16 August 1999, republished by Law 5/2012	archive-date=9 February 2023	access-date = 9 February 2023}}	Art. 23}}	Art. 21(3)}}
Madagascar	Life + 70 years
Malawi	Life + 50 years
Malaysia Malaysia	url=http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/my/my054en.pdf	title=Copyright Act 1987	access-date=26 September 2016	archive-date=8 April 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408093258/http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/my/my054en.pdf	url-status=live }}	s. 17(2), s. 18, s. 22, s. 23A}}
s. 17(2), (3), s. 18, s. 19, s. 20, s. 22, s. 23A}}
Maldives	Life + 50 years
Mali	Life + 50 years
Malta	last=Camilleri	first=Antoine	title=Intellectual property in Malta: Copyright	work=The Times (Malta)	date=9 September 2010	url= http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100909/business-comment/intellectual-property-in-malta-copyright.326115	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160317075454/http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100909/business-comment/intellectual-property-in-malta-copyright.326115	archive-date=17 March 2016	access-date=5 September 2016}}		Yes
Marshall Islands	0, no copyright. At this stage the Republic of Marshall Islands is not member to any international convention [or treaty] on copyright Instead applies a non-copyright-based protection regime.	0, no copyright. Instead applies a non-copyright-based protection regime.
Mauritania	Berne, TRIPS
Mauritius	Life + 50 years
Mexico	Life + 100 years for works in copyright on and after 23 July 2003
The duration of copyright protection in Mexico has steadily increased, from life + 20 years post mortem (Law of 1948), to life + 25 years (Law of 1956), to life + 30 years (Decree of 1963), to life + 50 years (Decree of 1982), to life + 75 years (Law of 1996), and to life + 100 years (Decree of 2003).
The extensions to 50, 75 and 100 years post mortem applied to all works in copyright when they came into force but did not revive the copyright of works that had previously passed into the public domain.		Yes
Micronesia	Life + 50 years
Moldova	Life + 70 years
Monaco	Life + 50 years
Mongolia	Life + 50 years
Montenegro	Life + 70 years
Morocco	Life + 50 years	70 years after a work's lawful publication; if no lawful publication has taken place within 50 years of the making, copyright lasts for 70 years after the work's communication to the public; if no lawful communication to the public has taken place within 50 years of the making, copyright lasts for 70 years after the work is made; and
Mozambique	Life + 70 years
Myanmar	TRIPS
Namibia N	title=Copyright Act 98 of 1978, as amended by s. 3, Act 52 of 1984, s. 3, Act 125 of 1992 and by s. 52, Act 38 of 1997	format=PDF	publisher=UNESCO	url=http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/na_copyright_1997_en.pdf?URL_ID=30232&filename=11417290793na_copyright_1997_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=166426&name=na_copyright_1997_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	access-date=8 January 2016	url-status=dead	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160108161936/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/na_copyright_1997_en.pdf?URL_ID=30232&filename=11417290793na_copyright_1997_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=166426&name=na_copyright_1997_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	archive-date=8 January 2016}}	s. 3(2)(a)}}	s. 3}}
Nauru	url=http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/acts/2a488c70710d55d809274d2895a51458.pdf	title=Copyright Act 2019 (No. 17 of 2019)	publisher=Government of Nauru	access-date=13 November 2024}}	s. 18 (4)}}
Yes
Nepal	Life + 50 years	25 years from creation (applied art and photographic work)
Netherlands Netherlands	Life + 70 years	70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work, corporate works with no listed natural author)
Yes
Caribbean Netherlands	Life + 50 years
New Zealand New Zealand	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/129098	archive-url=https://archive.today/20050127023229/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/nz/nz015en.html	url-status=dead	title=Copyright, Act (Consolidation), 1913 (15/12/1994), (No. 143)	archive-date=27 January 2005 }}	s. 22(2)}}	s. 22}}
Nicaragua	Life + 70 years
Niger	Life + 50 years
Nigeria	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413123827/http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/ng/ng038en.pdf	date=13 April 2014 }}	70 years from publication (literary, musical or non-photograph artistic works in the case of government or a body corporate)	Yes
North Macedonia	Life + 70 years
Norway	Life + 70 years	70 years following the year of death of the author (i.e. an author that died in 1950 will have their works protected until 1 January 2021). In a collective or joint work, this is counted from the death of the longest surviving author. For a motion picture, the following are to be considered authors: main director, scriptwriter, dialogue author, and composer of original musical score.	Yes
Oman Oman O	Life + 70 years	90 years from the year following the publication	Yes
Pakistan Pakistan P	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303170348/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=3482	date=3 March 2013 }}		Yes
Palau	Life + 50 years
Panama	Life + 70 years		Yes
Papua New Guinea	Life + 50 years
Paraguay	Life + 70 years
Peru	Life + 70 years
Philippines Philippines	url=http://www.congress.gov.ph/download/ra_10/RA08293.pdf	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030041515/http://www.congress.gov.ph/download/ra_10/RA08293.pdf	url-status=dead	title=Intellectual Property Code	archive-date=30 October 2008}}	s. 213.5}}	s. 214}}
Poland Poland	Life + 70 years
Portugal	Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years]
Qatar Q	Life + 50 years
Romania R	Life + 70 years
Russia Russia	url=http://www.consultant.ru/popular/gkrf4/	title=Article 1281 of Civil Code	publisher=Consultant.ru	access-date=8 June 2012	archive-date=7 June 2012	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607021156/http://www.consultant.ru/popular/gkrf4/	url-status=live }}	url=http://www.consultant.ru/popular/gkrf4/	title=Article 1330 of Civil Code	publisher=Consultant.ru	access-date=11 December 2014	archive-date=7 June 2012	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607021156/http://www.consultant.ru/popular/gkrf4/	url-status=live }}

Rwanda	Berne, TRIPS
Saint Helena	Life + 50 years
St. Kitts and Nevis	Life + 50 years
St. Lucia	Life + 50 years
St. Vincent and the Grenadines S	title=Copyright Act, 2003	year=2003	url=http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/vc_copyright_2003_en.PDF?URL_ID=30444&filename=11425886943vc_copyright_2003_en.PDF&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=333544&name=vc_copyright_2003_en.PDF&location=user-S/	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616030910/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/vc_copyright_2003_en.PDF?URL_ID=30444&filename=11425886943vc_copyright_2003_en.PDF&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=333544&name=vc_copyright_2003_en.PDF&location=user-S%2F	url-status=dead	archive-date=16 June 2024	access-date=8 June 2012 }}	s. 9(1)}}	ss. 8–10}}
Samoa	Life + 75 years
San Marino	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729114715/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=202238	date=29 July 2013 }}
São Tomé and Príncipe	Life + 70 years
Saudi Arabia	Life + 50 years	The period of copyright for the author of a work shall be for the duration of his life and for a period of fifty years following his death.
Senegal	Life + 70 years
Serbia Serbia	Life + 70 years
Seychelles	url=http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/sc/sc013en.pdf	title=Copyright Act, 2014	access-date=10 February 2015	archive-date=10 February 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210203558/http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/sc/sc013en.pdf	url-status=live }}	s. 9(1)(ii), (v)}}	s. 9(1)}}
Sierra Leone	url=http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf	title=Sierra Leone Copyright Act 2011	access-date=18 February 2014	archive-date=22 February 2014	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222152932/http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2011-08.pdf	url-status=live }}	s. 25}}
Singapore	url=http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/	title=Singapore Statutes Online – Home	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=15 December 2017	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215173603/http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/	url-status=dead}}	s. 28(3), (6)}}	ss. 28, 92–96}}
Sint Maarten	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316003653/http://decentrale.regelgeving.overheid.nl/cvdr/XHTMLoutput/Historie/Nederlandse%20Antillen/2265/2265_1.html	date=16 March 2014 }}, last amended 1 March 2004.
Slovakia	Life + 70 years
Slovenia	Life + 70 years
Solomon Islands	Life + 50 years
Somalia	Very unclear. See the discussion at Commons.
South Africa South Africa	url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=4067	title=South Africa: Copyright Act, 1978 (Act No. 98 of 1978, as amended up to Copyright Amendment Act 2002)	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=15 March 2017	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315230735/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=4067	url-status=live}}	s. 3(2)(b)}}	s. 3}}
Spain Spain	Life + 70 years (for authors that died on or after 7 December 1987)		Art. 30}}
Sri Lanka	title=Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003	url=http://www.nipo.gov.lk/act_regulations/chapter-1.pdf	publisher=Parliament of Sri Lanka	access-date=30 January 2013	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617071809/http://www.nipo.gov.lk/act_regulations/chapter-1.pdf	archive-date=17 June 2012	url-status=dead}}	70 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from completion (audiovisual work)
25 years from publication (applied art)	Yes
Sudan	url=https://www.wipo.int/en/web/traditional-knowledge/w/tklaws/article_0065	archive-url=https://archive.today/20080529031042/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/sd/sd001en.html	url-status=dead	title=SD001: Copyright, Act, 12/12/1996	archive-date=29 May 2008 }}	s. 13(3)(a), (c)}}
Suriname	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310210348/http://www.sasur.org/index.php/downloads/category/6-regelgeving	date=10 March 2016 }}	date=January	50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work) (art. 39)	Yes
Sweden	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124061241/https://lagen.nu/1960:729	date=24 November 2010 }}, as modified by Act 1995:1273		Yes
Switzerland Switzerland	Life + 70 years effective 1 July 1993 non-retroactively, but Life + 50 years for computer programs	url=http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c231_1.html	title=SR 231.1 Bundesgesetz vom 9. Oktober 1992 über das Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte (Urheberrechtsgesetz, URG)	first=Bundeskanzlei -	last=P	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=11 January 2013	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111060206/http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c231_1.html	url-status=live}}	Art. 32}}
Syria	url=http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/sy_copyright_2001_en.pdf?URL_ID=30397&filename=11424371293sy_copyright_2001_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=68822&name=sy_copyright_2001_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	title=Law No. 12/2001	access-date=8 January 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108161936/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/admin/file_download.php/sy_copyright_2001_en.pdf?URL_ID=30397&filename=11424371293sy_copyright_2001_en.pdf&filetype=application%2Fpdf&filesize=68822&name=sy_copyright_2001_en.pdf&location=user-S%2F	archive-date=8 January 2016	url-status=live }}	Art. 25}}
Taiwan Taiwan (Republic of China)	url=http://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=J0070017	title=Laws & Regulations Database and The Republic of China	access-date=1 February 2017	archive-date=8 January 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108161936/http://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=J0070017	url-status=live}}	Art. 32}}	Art. 35}}
Tajikistan Tajikistan	Berne
Tanzania	Life + 50 years
Thailand Thailand	Life + 50 years	50 years from publication or 50 years from creation if not published within 50 years from creation
Timor Leste	Life + 50 years
Togo	Life + 50 years
Tonga	Life + 50 years
Trinidad and Tobago	Life + 50 years
Tunisia	Life + 50 years
Turkey Turkey	Life + 70 years	70 years from publication for work-for-hire
Turkmenistan	Life + 50 years
Tuvalu	Life + 50 years
Uganda U	title=COPYRIGHT	url=https://ursb.go.ug/more-on-copyright/	url-status=live	access-date=19 February 2021	website=Uganda Registration Services Bureau	archive-date=2 March 2021	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302070028/https://ursb.go.ug/more-on-copyright/}}	50 years from publication (corporate works, anonymous works, and computer programs)
Ukraine	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929121620/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=142655	date=29 September 2013 }}	70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)
70 years from publication (published within 30 years from authors' deaths)	Yes
United Arab Emirates	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704154135/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7	date=4 July 2013 }}
United Kingdom United Kingdom	Life + 70 years	70 years if the author is unknown	s. 12, 13}}
United States United States	Life + 70 years (works published since 1978 or unpublished works)	95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, published since 1978)	Yes
Universal Copyright Convention minimum terms	Life + 25 years (general works)	25 years from publication (specific works not based on authors' deaths)
Uruguay	Life + 70 years	url=https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/9739-1937/17	title=Ley N° 9739	website=impo.com.uy	language=es	access-date=7 January 2018	archive-date=8 January 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108174831/https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/9739-1937/17	url-status=live}}	Yes
Uzbekistan	Life + 70 years
Vanuatu V	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316052752/http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/vu/vu039en.pdf	date=16 March 2014 }}	25 years after the work is made (works of applied art)
Yes
Vatican City	Life + 70 years
Venezuela	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/es/legislation/details/3989	archive-url=https://archive.today/20041128031300/http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/ve/ve010en.html	url-status=dead	title=Ley sobre el Dercho de Autor as modified by the Decreto del 14 de agosto de 1993	archive-date=28 November 2004 }}	Art. 37}}	Arts. 25–27}}
Vietnam	Berne
Yemen Y	Life + 50 years	25 years from the date of production from 1 January of the production year for applied arts and photography.
Zambia Z	Life + 50 years
Zimbabwe	url=https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/4095	archive-url=https://archive.today/20080609033439/http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/text_html.jsp?lang=en&id=4095	url-status=dead	title=Zimbabwe: Copyright, Act (Ch. 26:1 Consolidation), 1966 (1981), No. 60 (No. 29)	archive-date=9 June 2008 }}	s. 6(3)(b)}}	s. 6, 16–18}}

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