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fghanistan 0, no copyright.[1] 0, no copyright.
Albania Life + 70 years[2] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[3]
70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (photographic or audiovisual work of joint authorship)[4]
25 years from production (works of applied art)[5]
Yes[6]
Algeria Life + 50 years (except posthumous work)[7] 50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (collective work, anonymous or pseudonymous work, audiovisual work, posthumous work)[8]
50 years from creation (photographs or the work of applied art)[9]
Yes[10]
Andorra Life + 70 years[11][12] 70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (collective work with unknown authorship)[13]
70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[14]
Yes[15]
Angola Life + 50 years[16]
Life + 25 years (photographic works or applied arts)[16]
Yes[16]
Anguilla Life + 50 years[17] 50 years from the death of the author, of the last surviving author for works with more than one author.[17]
Antigua and Barbuda Life + 50 years[18][19] 50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (anonymous or pseudonymous work, computer generated work, sound recording or film)[20]
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[21]
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of a published edition)[22]
Yes[23]
Argentina Life + 70 years[24] 50 years from publication (anonymous intellectual works belonging to institutions, corporations or legal persons)[25] Yes[26]
Armenia Life + 50 years (except posthumous work first published within 50 years after the author's death)[27] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works; posthumous work first published within 50 years after the author's death)[28] Yes[29]
Aruba Life + 50 years[30]
Australia (including external territories) Life + 70 years[31]
[Life + 50 years (death before 1955)][32]
70 years from publication (sound recordings, cinematograph films)[33]
50 years after making (television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)[34]
[50 years from publication (photographs, no longer applicable since 1 January 2005)][32]
Yes[35]
Austria Life + 70 years[36][37] 70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[38] Yes[39]
Azerbaijan Life + 50 years (except posthumous work published at first time during 30 years)[40] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work; posthumous work published at first time during 30 years)[41] Yes[42]
Bahamas Berne
Bahrain Life + 50 calendar years (except posthumous work)[43] 50 calendar years from publication (cinematographic films, applied arts works and photographs; anonymous or pseudonymous works; corporate works; posthumous works)[44]
40 years from publication or 50 years from completion, whichever is earlier (computer software)[45]
Bangladesh Life + 50 years
Barbados Life + 50 years[46][47] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[48]
50 years from making (computer-generated work)[49]
50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (sound recordings and films)[50]
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[51]
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of a published edition)[22]
Yes[52]
Belarus Life + 50 years[53] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[54]
50 years from fixation (performance)[55]
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from fixation (phonogram)[56]
50 years from the first broadcast or cable transmission[57]
Yes[58]
Belgium Life + 70 years[59]
Belize Life + 50 years[60]
Benin Life + 50 years
Bermuda Life + 50 years[61]
Berne Convention signatories Life + 50 years[62]
Signatories may grant longer terms.[63]
50 years from publication or if not shown 50 years from creation (cinematographic works)[64]
50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[65]
25 years from creation (photographic works)[66]
Signatories may grant longer terms.[63]
Yes[67]
Bhutan Life + 50 years[68]
Bolivia Life + 50 years[69]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Life + 70 years[70]
Botswana Berne, TRIPS, WCT[71]
Brazil Life + 70 years[72]
British Indian Ocean Territory unknown
British Virgin Islands unknown
Brunei Life + 50 years[73]
Bulgaria Life + 70 years (EU)[74]
Burkina Faso Life + 70 years[75]
Burundi Life + 50 years
Cambodia Life + 50 years[76]
Cameroon Life + 50 years[77]
Canada Life + 50 years[78]
Cape Verde Life + 50 years[79]
Cayman Islands unknown
Central African Republic Berne, TRIPS
Chad Berne, TRIPS
Chile Life + 70 years[80]
China, People's Republic of (Mainland only) Life + 50 years (citizens' works)[81] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (works of legal entities, cinematographic works, films or photographic works)[82] Yes[6]
Colombia Life + 80 years[83] 80 years from publication (cinematographic works)[29] Yes[84]
Comoros Berne
Congo (Democratic Republic) Berne, TRIPS
Congo (Republic) Berne, TRIPS
Costa Rica Life + 70 years[85]
Côte d'Ivoire Life + 99 years (except posthumous works published within this period)[86] 99 years from publication (photographic or audiovisual works or works of applied art; anonymous or pseudonymous works; posthumous works)[87] Yes[88]
Croatia Life + 70 years[89]
Cuba Life + 50 years
Cyprus Life + 50 years
(EU, WCT)[90]
Czech Republic Life + 70 years[91] 70 years from publication (anonymous works)[92] Yes[93]
Denmark Life + 70 years[94]
Djibouti Life + 25 years (Berne, TRIPS)[95] 25 years from publication or if unpublished 25 years from completion (film)[96]
25 years from completion (a photographic work or a work of applied art)[97]
Yes[98]
Dominica Life + 70 years[99]
Dominican Republic Life + 50 years[100]
Ecuador Life + 70 years[101]
Egypt Life + 50 years[102]
El Salvador Life + 50 years[103]
Equatorial Guinea Berne
Eritrea unknown
Estonia Life + 70 years (EU)[104] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[105] Yes[106]
Ethiopia Life + 50 years[107]
European Union members Life + 70 years[108] 70 years from publication or if unpublished 70 years from creation (anonymous works)[109] Yes[25]
Fiji Life + 50 years[110]
Finland Life + 70 years[111] 50 years from publication (sound recordings, television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)[112]
50 years from creation (photographic works)[113]
Yes[114]
France Life + 70 years (except posthumous works published after this term)[115][116]
The following additions to copyright term formerly applied to all works, but the French Cour de Cassation has found them to be superseded by later copyright treaties, thus limiting the copyright term to life + 70 years total, at least for non-musical works of authors who did not "die for France".[117]
+ 6 years 152 days for musical work published through 1920[118]
+ 8 years and 120 days for musical work published through 1947[119]
+ 30 years for all works if the author died on active service[120]
70 years from publication (pseudonymous, anonymous or collective works)[121]
25 years from publication (posthumous works published after Art. L123-1 term)[122]
Yes[123]
Gabon Berne, TRIPS, WCT
Gambia Life + 50 years[124]
Georgia Life + 70 years[125]
Germany Life + 70 years[126] 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 [127] Yes[128]
Ghana Life + 70 years[129]
Greece Life + 70 years[130][131] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[132] Yes[133]
Grenada Berne, TRIPS[134]
Guatemala Life + 75 years[135] 75 years from publication or if unpublished 75 years from creation (computer programs and collective works; anonymous or pseudonymous works; audiovisual works)[136] Yes[137]
Guinea TRIPS, WCT
Guinea-Bissau Berne, TRIPS
Guyana Life + 50 years[138]
Haiti Berne, TRIPS[139]
Honduras Life + 75 years[140] 70 years from publication or, if unpublished within 50 years, 70 years from creation (works of applied art and photographs)[141] Yes[141]
Hong Kong[142] Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with known authorship)[143]
Life + 50 years (films)[144]
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with unknown authorship)[145]
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (sound recordings)[146]
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[147]
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of published editions)[148]
Yes[149]
Yes[
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