List of Countries' Copyright Length - Table

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Countries, areas, and entities Copyright terms based on authors' deaths Copyright terms based on publication and creation dates Until year end?
Afghanistan Life + 50 years 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)


50 years from publication (Published after authors' deaths)
50 years from publication (audiovisual works)
50 years from publication (photographic,painting works)
50 years from creation (phonogram)

 Yes (Afghan calendar)
Albania Life + 70 years 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)


70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (photographic or audiovisual work of joint authorship)
25 years from production (works of applied art)

 Yes
Algeria Life + 50 years (except posthumous work) 50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (collective work, anonymous or pseudonymous work, audiovisual work, posthumous work)


50 years from creation (photographs or the work of applied art)

 Yes
Andorra Life + 70 years 70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (collective work with unknown authorship)


70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)

 Yes
Angola Life + 50 years


Life + 25 years (photographic works or applied arts)

 Yes
Anguilla Life + 50 years 50 years from the death of the author, of the last surviving author for works with more than one author.
Antigua and Barbuda Life + 50 years 50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (anonymous or pseudonymous work, computer generated work, sound recording or film)


50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of a published edition)

 Yes
Argentina Life + 70 years 50 years from publication (anonymous intellectual works belonging to institutions, corporations or legal persons) Photographies: 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). Yes
Armenia Life + 70 years 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works) Yes
Aruba Life + 50 years(wikisource)
Australia (including external territories) Life + 70 years


70 years from publication (sound recordings, cinematograph films)


50 years after making (television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)

 Yes
Austria Life + 70 years 70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (anonymous or pseudonymous work) Yes
Azerbaijan Life + 50 years (except posthumous work published at first time during 30 years) 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work; posthumous work published at first time during 30 years) Yes
Bahamas Berne
Bahrain Life + 50 calendar years (except posthumous work) 50 calendar years from publication (cinematographic films, applied arts works and photographs; anonymous or pseudonymous works; corporate works; posthumous works)


40 years from publication or 50 years from completion, whichever is earlier (computer software)
Bangladesh Life + 50 years
Barbados Life + 50 years 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)


50 years from making (computer-generated work)
50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (sound recordings and films)
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of a published edition)

 Yes
Belarus Life + 50 years 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (anonymous or pseudonymous works)


50 years from fixation (performance)
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from fixation (phonogram)
50 years from the first broadcast or cable transmission

 Yes
Belgium Life + 70 years
Belize Life + 50 years
Benin Life + 50 years
Bermuda Life + 50 years
Berne Convention signatories Life + 50 years


Signatories may grant longer terms.

 50 years from publication or if not shown 50 years from creation (cinematographic works)


50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)
25 years from creation (photographic works)
Signatories may grant longer terms.

 Yes
Bhutan Life + 50 years
Bolivia Life + 50 years
Bosnia and Herzegovina Life + 70 years
Botswana Berne, TRIPS, WCT
Brazil Life + 70 years
British Indian Ocean Territory unknown
British Virgin Islands unknown
Brunei Life + 50 years
Bulgaria Life + 70 years (EU)
Burkina Faso Life + 70 years
Burundi Life + 50 years

50 years from publication (phonograms)
Cambodia Life + 50 years
Cameroon Life + 50 years
Canada Canada Life + 50 years For anonymous works, 50 years from publication or 75 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Yes
Cape Verde Life + 50 years
Cayman Islands unknown
Central African Republic Berne, TRIPS
Chad Berne, TRIPS
Chile Life + 70 years
China, People's Republic of (Mainland only) Life + 50 years (citizens' works) 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (works of legal entities, cinematographic works, films or photographic works) Yes
Colombia Life + 80 years 80 years from publication (cinematographic works) Yes
Comoros Berne
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Berne, TRIPS
Congo, Republic of the Berne, TRIPS
Costa Rica Life + 70 years
Côte d'Ivoire Life + 99 years (except posthumous works published within this period) 99 years from publication (photographic or audiovisual works or works of applied art; anonymous or pseudonymous works; posthumous works) Yes
Croatia Life + 70 years
Cuba Life + 50 years
Curaçao Life + 50 years
Cyprus Life + 50 years
(EU, WCT)
Czech Republic Life + 70 years 70 years from publication (anonymous works) Yes
Denmark Life + 70 years
Djibouti Life + 25 years (Berne, TRIPS) 25 years from publication or if unpublished 25 years from completion (film)


25 years from completion (a photographic work or a work of applied art)

 Yes
Dominica Life + 70 years
Dominican Republic Life + 50 years
Ecuador Life + 70 years
Egypt Life + 50 years
El Salvador Life + 50 years
Equatorial Guinea Berne
Eritrea the latter of Life + 0 years or 50 years since publication
Estonia Life + 70 years (EU) 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works) Yes
Ethiopia Life + 50 years
European Union Members Life + 70 years 70 years from publication or if unpublished 70 years from creation (anonymous works) Yes
Fiji Life + 50 years
Finland Life + 70 years 50 years from publication (sound recordings, television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)

50 years from creation (photographic works)

 Yes
France Life + 70 years (except posthumous works published after this term)


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".


+ 6 years 152 days for musical work published through 1920
+ 8 years and 120 days for musical work published through 1947
+ 30 years for all works if the author died on active service

 70 years from publication (pseudonymous, anonymous or collective works)


25 years from publication (posthumous works published after Art. L123-1 term)

 Yes
Gabon Berne, TRIPS, WCT
Gambia Life + 50 years
Georgia Life + 70 years
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 Life + 70 years 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works) Yes
Grenada Berne, TRIPS
Guatemala Life + 75 years 75 years from publication or if unpublished 75 years from creation (computer programs and collective works; anonymous or pseudonymous works; audiovisual works) Yes
Guinea TRIPS, WCT
Guinea-Bissau Berne, TRIPS
Guyana Life + 50 years
Haiti Berne, TRIPS
Honduras Life + 75 years 70 years from publication or, if unpublished within 50 years, 70 years from creation (works of applied art and photographs) Yes
Hong Kong Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with known authorship)


Life + 50 years (films)

 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with unknown authorship)


50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (sound recordings)
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of published editions)

 Yes
Hungary Life + 70 years
Iceland Life + 70 years
India Life + 60 years (except posthumous works) 60 years from publication (posthumous works, photographs, cinematograph films, sound recordings, works of public undertakings, and works of international organisations) Yes
Indonesia Life + 50 years
Iran Life + 50 years 30 years from publication (photographic or cinematographic works)
Iraq Life + 50 years
Ireland Life + 70 years
Israel Life + 70 years 50 years from publication (photographs created till May 2007) Yes
Italy Life + 70 years
 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)


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
Jamaica Life + 50 years
Japan Life + 50 years 70 years from publication or if unpublished 70 years from creation (cinematographic works)


50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (works of a legal person or other corporate body)

 Yes
Jordan Life + 50 years
Kazakhstan Life + 50 years
Kenya Life + 50 years (literary, musical or artistic work other than photographs) 50 years from the latest of creation or publication (audio-visual works and photographs) Yes
Kiribati Life + 50 years
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Life + 50 years (Berne) Works authored by "an institution, enterprise or organization", 50 years from publication
Korea, Republic of Life + 50 years 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (organizational works) Yes
Kuwait TRIPS
Kyrgyzstan Life + 50 years
Laos Life + 50 years. 50 years.
Latvia Life + 70 years
 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work) Yes
Lebanon Life + 50 years
Lesotho Life + 50 years
Liberia unknown
Libya Life + 25 years with 50-year minimum (as of 1968; may have changed since)
Liechtenstein Life + 70 years
Lithuania Life + 70 years
Luxembourg Life + 70 years
Macau(b) Life + 50 years 50 years from publication (anonymous works)


50 years from publication (audiovisual works)
25 years from completion (works of applied art and photographic works)

 Yes
Macedonia Life + 70 years
Madagascar Life + 70 years
Malawi Life + 50 years
Malaysia Life + 50 years
Maldives Life + 50 years from death.
Mali Life + 50 years
Malta Life + 70 years
Marshall Islands 0, no copyright. Copyright legislation is not known to exist. 0, no copyright.
Mauritania Berne, TRIPS
Mauritius Life + 50 years
Mexico Life +100 years (effective 23 July 2003 non-retroactively)



Micronesia Life + 50 years
Moldova Life + 50 years
Monaco WCT
Mongolia Life + 50 years
Montenegro Life + 70 years
Morocco Life + 50 years
Mozambique Life + 70 years
Myanmar TRIPS
Namibia Life + 50 years (except posthumous works) 50 years from publication (posthumous works)


50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (cinematograph films, photographs and computer programs)

 Yes
Nauru unknown
Nepal Life + 50 years 25 years from creation (applied art and photographic work)
Netherlands Life + 70 years 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work, corporate works with no listed natural author)
Caribbean Netherlands Life + 50 years
New Zealand Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work) 50 years from creation (computer-generated work) Yes
Nicaragua Life + 70 years
Niger Life + 50 years
Nigeria Life + 70 years (literary, musical or artistic works other than photographs) 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)

 Yes
Norway Life + 70 years Yes
Oman Life + 70 years 90 years from the year following the publication

120 years from the year following the completion

Yes
Pakistan Life + 50 years Yes
Palau Life + 50 years
Panama Life + 50 years
Papua New Guinea Life + 50 years
Paraguay Life + 70 years
Peru Life + 70 years
Philippines Life + 50 years 50 years from publication (photographic works), or 50 years from creation if unpublished within 50 years of creation Yes
Poland Life + 70 years
Portugal Life + 70 years
Qatar Life + 50 years
Romania Life + 70 years
Russia Life + 70 years

Rehabilitation + 70 years (for repressed and rehabilitated)

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

Life + 50 years (death before 1943)		 70 years from publication date for non-amateur cinematographic works published before 1993.

All coryrights prior to October Revolution (7-th November 1917) are believed to be expired...
Rwanda Berne, TRIPS
St. Kitts and Nevis Life + 50 years
St. Lucia Life + 50 years
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Life + 75 years (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work) 75 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (sound recording or film)


50 years from creation (computer-generated work)
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service

 Yes
Samoa Life + 75 years
San Marino Life + 50 years
São Tomé and Príncipe unknown
Saudi Arabia Life + 50 years
Senegal Life + 70 years
Serbia Life + 70 years
Seychelles Life + 25 years 25 years from publication (photograph, film, or broadcast)


25 years from creation (sound recording)

 Yes
Singapore Life + 70 years (except posthumous work) 70 years from publication (posthumous work, photograph)


70 years from publication (sound recordings and cinematograph films)
50 years after making (television broadcasts, sound broadcasts, cable programmes)
25 years from publication (published editions of works)

 Yes
Sint Maarten Life + 50 years
Slovakia Life + 70 years
Slovenia Life + 70 years
Solomon Islands Life + 50 years
Somalia unknown
South Africa Life + 50 years (literary or musical works or artistic works, other than photographs) 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (cinematography films, photographs, computer programs)


50 years from publication (sound recordings; broadcasts; programme-carrying signals; and published editions)

 Yes
Spain Life + 70 years
 Yes
Sri Lanka Life + 70 years 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from completion (cinematographic, radiophonic or audiovisual work)


25 years from publication (photographic work or a work of applied art)

 Yes
Sudan Life + 50 years 25 years from publication (photographic pictures and cinematographic films and other audiovisual works; works published under unknown pseudonym or anonymously)
Suriname Berne, TRIPS
Swaziland Life + 50 years
Sweden Life + 70 years Yes
Switzerland Life + 70 years effective 1 July 1993 non-retroactively, but Life + 50 years for computer programs


50 years after performance (performers' rights) Yes
Syria Life + 50 years 10 years from production (photographic, fine arts or plastic arts)
Taiwan Life + 50 years (except posthumous works first published 40 to 50 years after death) 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)


50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (corporate works; photographic works, audiovisual works, sound recordings, and performances)
10 years from publication (posthumous works first published 40 to 50 years after death)

 Yes
Tajikistan Berne
Tanzania Life + 50 years
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 Life + 70 years
Turkmenistan Life + 50 years
Tuvalu Life + 50 years
Uganda TRIPS
Ukraine Life + 70 years
United Arab Emirates Life + 50 years
United Kingdom Life + 70 years 50 years after release; if not released, 50 years after making (sound recordings).


EU Directive 2011/77/EU, extending this period to 70 years from 1 November 2013, has been adopted but not yet ratified by Parliament. Phonograms already out of copyright in 2013 will not be retroactively protected.

Yes
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)


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.)

 Yes
Universal Copyright Convention minimum terms Life + 25 years (general works) 25 years from publication (specific works not based on authors' deaths)


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


60 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)

 Yes
Vietnam Berne
Yemen Life + 30 years
Zambia Life + 50 years
Zimbabwe Life + 50 years 50 years from publication (photographs)


50 years from creation (Sound recordings)
50 years from publication (cinematograph films, broadcasts)

 Yes

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