Copyright and Related Right in Vietnam Under the Law on Intellectual Property ?
What is Copyright in Vietnam?
Copyright is stipulated in particularly in Civil code, Law on Intellectual Property, and other laws.
Copyright means rights of an organization or individual to works which such organization or individual created or owns.
Copyright shall arise automatically at the moment a work is created and fixed in a certain material form; irrespective of its content, quality, form, mode and language and irrespective of whether or not such work has been published or registered.
As stipulations of Law on Intellectual Property, Copyright in works shall comprise moral rights and economic rights. Moral rights (except publication rights) shall be protected all whole life of authors and from 50 to 75 years since the author or the final co-author dies.
What is Copyright Related Rights in Vietnam?
Copyright-related rights or related rights means rights of organizations and individuals to performances, phonograms, video recordings, broadcasts and encrypted program-carrying satellite signals.
The rights of performers shall be protected for fifty (50) years, which starts from the year following the year in which the performance is turn into a fixed form.
The rights of producers of audio and video recordings shall be protected for fifty (50) years which starts from the year following the year of publication, or fifty (50) years which starts from the year following the year in which any unpublished audio and video recording is turned into a fixed form.
The rights of broadcasting organizations shall be protected for fifty (50) years which starts from the year following the year in which a broadcast is made.
What are the Advantages of Registering Copyright in Vietnam?
Like the Trademark registration, Copyright registration shall be the important legal bases to resist actions of appropriating copyright, impersonating authors, counterfeiting, infringing on copyright which lead to damage on reputation of authors.
Services of Registration of Copyright and Related Right in Vietnam Include:
Services on copyright and related right in Vietnam as follows:
-Advise in grounds for the generation and establishment of Copyrights; basic limitation of Copyright and related right in Vietnam;
-Consult and implement registration procedures relating to copyright and related right in Vietnam;
-Consult, represent Clients negotiating and drafting using agreement, assignment agreement and other contracts relating to copyright and related right in Vietnam;
-Complaint decision relating to issuance certificate of copyright and related right in Vietnam;
-Consult, collaborate with competent authorities in resolving infringement to copyright and related right in Vietnam.
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