The principle of copyright is that a work automatically enjoys copyright after completion. The so-called completion is relative, as long as the object of creation has met the statutory conditions for the composition of the work, it can be protected by copyright law as a work. The citizen who creates a work is the author. A creation hosted by a legal person or other organization represents the will of the legal person or other organization, and the legal person or other organization is regarded as the author.
Copyright belongs to the author, except as otherwise provided by this law. The citizen who creates a work is the author. A work presided over by a legal person or other organization, created on behalf of a legal person or other organization, and in the charge of a legal person or other organization shall be regarded as the author. If there is no proof to the contrary, the signed citizen, legal person or other organization shall be the author.
Copyright is generally owned by the copyright owner. However, the copyright of a work jointly created by two people belongs to the co-creator; The copyright of a job work belongs to the author of the job work, except that it belongs to a legal person or other person.
Conditions for obtaining copyright:
1, substantial condition.
One criterion is that as long as a specific thought or emotion is endowed with a certain literary and artistic form, whether it is all or part of the work or the work has been fixed in a certain material form, it can be regarded as a work protected according to law.
Another criterion is that in addition to the general conditions of a work, that is, it is expressed in a certain literary and artistic form, it is also required that this form be fixed through a material carrier in order to be protected by the copyright law. According to this standard, oral works and some improvisational dance, music and quyi works may be excluded from the protection scope of copyright law.
2. Formal conditions.
Formal conditions refer to whether a work enjoys copyright without other conditions after completion, or only by attaching certain conditions or performing certain legal procedures can the work be obtained. Once a work is produced, whether it is whole or part, as long as it has the attributes of the work, it will produce copyright, which does not need to be registered or published, and it is not necessary to add copyright marks to the copy.