Commons talk:Copyright rules by territory/Iran/en

Iran Copyright

The text linked at citation 1, http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/ir/ir005en.pdf, amends the copyright law in an important way:

3. Where the copyright holder is a legal entity, the economic rights relating to the authors of collective works, other than authors of works of applied art, shall be protected for 50 years from the date on which the work was published or made available to the public for the first time, whichever comes first. Where the copyright holder is a natural person, the protection period shall be calculated according to the rule stipulated in subparagraph (a) and (b).

4. The economic rights relating to a work published anonymously or under pseudonym shall be protected for a period of 50 years, from the date on which the work was published or made available to the public for the first time, whichever comes first, unless the identity of the author is known and established or revealed by the author, in which case the term of protection shall be calculated according to the rule stipulated in subparagraph (a).

This changes the copyright period for anonymous works and works belonging to a legal person to 50 years.

It also clarifies the status of certain works:

2) Article 2 is amended to read as follows: “The protection shall include the works whose method of expression is in writing, sound, drawing, painting or movement, and in particular the following:

1. Written works of all types

2. Computer programs, whether in source or object code, which shall be protected as literary works

3. Works conveyed verbally such as lectures, lessons, speeches, sermons and the like

4. Works entered under the arts of drawing and painting with lines and colors, engraving, sculpture and architecture

5. Dramatic works and musical plays

6. Works performed by artistic movements or steps and are materially prepared for production

7. Musical works, whether accompanied by words or not

8. Photographic and cinematographic works

9. Works prepared for radio and television

10. Charts, drawings and scientific three-dimensional figures

11. Public recitals of the Holy Koran

12. Sound recordings

13. Compilations of data”

.     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 17:13, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

@Jameslwoodward Have you mistaken Iran and Iraq? This seems to be from Iraq's law. HeminKurdistan (talk) 17:38, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Apologies -- you're right. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 17:55, 16 December 2022 (UTC)