SmokeyTheBear

Hungary Life + 70 years[150]
Iceland Life + 70 years[151]
India[152] Life + 60 years (except posthumous works)[153][154] 60 years from publication (posthumous works, photographs, cinematograph films, sound recordings, works of public undertakings, and works of international organisations)[155] Yes[156]
Indonesia Life + 50 years[157]
Iran Life + 30 years[158] 30 years from publication (photographic or cinematographic works)[159]
Iraq Life + 50 years[160]
Ireland Life + 70 years[161]
Israel Life + 70 years[162] 50 years from publication (photographs created till May 2007)[163] Yes[164]
Italy Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][165] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[166]

20 years from publication (copyright of State, the provinces, the communes, the academies or public cultural organizations, or to private legal entities of a non-profit making character)
Yes[167]
Jamaica Life + 50 years[168]
Japan Life + 50 years[169] 70 years from publication or if unpublished 70 years from creation (cinematographic works)[170]

50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (works of a legal person or other corporate body)[171]
Yes[172]
Jordan Life + 50 years[173]
Kazakhstan Life + 50 years[174]
Kenya Life + 50 years (literary, musical or artistic work other than photographs)[175] 50 years from the latest of creation or publication (audio-visual works and photographs)[176] Yes[177]
Kiribati Life + 50 years[124]
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North) Berne
Korea, Republic of (South) Life + 50 years[178] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (organizational works)[179] Yes[180]
Kuwait Life + 50 years[181]
Kyrgyzstan Life + 50 years[182]
Laos 0, no copyright.[183] 0, no copyright.
Latvia Life + 70 years[184]
[Life + 50 years][185] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[186] Yes[179]
Lebanon Life + 50 years[187]
Lesotho Life + 50 years[124]
Libya Life + 25 years with 50-year minimum (as of 1968; may have changed since)
Liechtenstein Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][188]
Lithuania Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][189]
Luxembourg Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][190]
Macau(b) Life + 50 years[191] 50 years from publication (anonymous works)[192]

50 years from publication (audiovisual works)[193]
25 years from completion (works of applied art and photographic works)[194]
Yes[195]
Macedonia Life + 70 years[196]
Madagascar Life + 70 years[197]
Malawi Life + 50 years[198]
Malaysia Life + 50 years[199]
Maldives TRIPS
Mali Life + 50 years[200]
Malta Life + 70 years[201]
Marshall Islands 0, no copyright. Copyright legislation is not known to exist.[202] 0, no copyright.
Mauritania Berne, TRIPS
Mauritius Life + 50 years[203]
Mexico Life +100 years (effective 23 July 2003 non-retroactively)[204]

[Life + 75 years (before the law change on 23 July 2003, applicable for deaths before 23 July 1928)][205]
Micronesia Life + 50 years[206]
Moldova Life + 50 years[207]
Monaco WCT
Mongolia Life + 50 years[208]
Montenegro[209] Life + 70 years[210]
Morocco Life + 50 years[211]
Mozambique Life + 70 years[212]
Myanmar TRIPS
Namibia Life + 50 years (except posthumous works)[213] 50 years from publication (posthumous works)[214]

50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (cinematograph films, photographs and computer programs)[215]
Yes[216]
Nauru unknown
Nepal Life + 50 years[217]
Netherlands[218] Life + 70 years[219] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work, corporate works with no listed natural author)[220]
New Zealand Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work)[221] 50 years from creation (computer-generated work)[222] Yes[223]
Nicaragua Life + 70 years[224]
Niger Life + 50 years[225]
Nigeria Life + 70 years (literary, musical or artistic works other than photographs)[226] 70 years from publication (literary, musical or non-photograph artistic works in the case of government or a body corporate)

50 years from publication (cinematograph films and photographs)
50 years from creation (sound recordings)
50 years from publication (broadcasts)[226]
Yes[226]
Norway Life + 70 years[227]
Oman Life + 50 years[228]
Pakistan Life + 50 years[229]
Palau Life + 50 years[230]
Panama Life + 50 years[231]
Papua New Guinea Life + 50 years[232]
Paraguay Life + 70 years[233]
Peru Life + 70 years[234]
Philippines Life + 50 years[235] 50 years from publication (photographic works)[236] Yes[237]
Poland Life + 70 years[238]
Portugal Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][239]
Qatar Life + 50 years[240]
Romania Life + 70 years[241]
Russia Life + 70 years[242]

Rehabilitation + 70 years (for repressed and rehabilitated)

Life + 74 years (for those taking part or working during the war 1941-1945)

Life + 50 years (death before 1943)[243]
Rwanda Berne, TRIPS
St. Kitts and Nevis Life + 50 years[124]
St. Lucia Life + 50 years[244]
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Life + 75 years (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work)[245] 75 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (sound recording or film)[246]

50 years from creation (computer-generated work)[247]
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[248]
Yes[249]
Samoa Berne
San Marino unknown
São Tomé and Príncipe unknown
Saudi Arabia Life + 50 years[250]
Senegal Berne, TRIPS
Serbia[251] Life + 70 years[210]
Seychelles Life + 25 years[252] 25 years from publication (photograph, film, or broadcast)[253]

25 years from creation (sound recording)[254]
Yes[246]
Singapore[255] Life + 70 years (except posthumous work)[256][257] 70 years from publication (posthumous work, photograph)[258]

70 years from publication (sound recordings and cinematograph films)[259]
50 years after making (television broadcasts, sound broadcasts, cable programmes)[260]
25 years from publication (published editions of works)[261]
Yes[262]
Slovakia Life + 70 years[263]
Slovenia Life + 70 years[264]
Solomon Islands Life + 50 years[265]
Somalia unknown
South Africa Life + 50 years (literary or musical works or artistic works, other than photographs)[266] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (cinematography films, photographs, computer programs)[215]

50 years from publication (sound recordings; broadcasts; programme-carrying signals; and published editions)[267]
Yes[216]
Spain Life + 70 years
[Life + 80 years(1879–1987), Life + 60 years(1987–1994)][268]
Sri Lanka Life + 50 years[269] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from completion (cinematographic, radiophonic or audiovisual work)[270]

25 years from publication (photographic work or a work of applied art)[271]
Yes[272]
Sudan Life + 50 years[273] 25 years from publication (photographic pictures and cinematographic films and other audiovisual works; works published under unknown pseudonym or anonymously)[274]
Suriname Berne, TRIPS
Swaziland Life + 50 years[275]
Sweden Life + 70 years[276] Yes[276]
Switzerland Life + 70 years effective 1 July 1993 non-retroactively, but Life + 50 years for computer programs[277]

[Life + 50 years (before the law change on 1 July 1993, applicable for deaths through 1942)][278]
50 years after performance (performers' rights)[279] Yes[280]
Syria Life + 50 years[281] 10 years from production (photographic, fine arts or plastic arts)[282]
Taiwan, Republic of China (Chinese Taipei) Life + 50 years (except posthumous works first published 40 to 50 years after death)[283] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[284]

50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (corporate works; photographic works, audiovisual works, sound recordings, and performances)[285]
10 years from publication (posthumous works first published 40 to 50 years after death)[286]
Yes[287]
Tajikistan Berne
Tanzania Life + 50 years[288]
Thailand Life + 50 years[289] 50 years from publication or 50 years from creation if not published within 50 years from creation
Timor Leste Life + 50 years[157]
Togo Life + 50 years[290]
Tonga Life + 50 years[291]
Trinidad and Tobago Life + 50 years[292]
Tunisia Life + 50 years[293]
Turkey Life + 70 years[294]
Turkmenistan Life + 50 years[295]
Tuvalu Life + 50 years[124]
Uganda TRIPS
Ukraine Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][296]
United Arab Emirates Life + 50 years[297]
United Kingdom Life + 70 years[298] 50 years after release or if not released 50 years after making (sound recordings)[22][299] Yes[300]
United States[301] Life + 70 years (works published since 1978 or unpublished works)[302] 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation whichever is shorter (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, published since 1978)[303]

95 years from publication for works published 1964–1977; 28 (if copyright not renewed) or 95 years from publication for works published 1923–1963 (Copyrights prior to 1923 have expired.)[304]
Yes[305]
Universal Copyright Convention minimum terms Life + 25 years (general works)[306] 25 years from publication (specific works not based on authors' deaths)[307]

10 years (photographic works or to works of applied art)[308]
Uruguay Life + 50 years[309]
Uzbekistan Life + 50 years[310]
Vanuatu unknown
Vatican City Life + 70 years[311]
Venezuela Life + 60 years[312] 60 years from publication; 60 years from creation if unpublished (an audiovisual work, a broadcast work or a computer program)[29]

60 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[166]
Yes[313]
Vietnam Berne
Yemen Life + 30 years
Zambia Life + 50 years[314]
Zimbabwe Life + 50 years[315][316] 50 years from publication (photographs)[317]

50 years from creation (Sound recordings)[318]
50 years from publication (cinematograph films, broadcasts)[319]

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