Regulations on copyright protection term in Vietnam

Specifically, in Article 27 of the 2005 Law on Intellectual Property (amended and supplemented in 2009 and 2019), the term of copyright protection is stipulated as follows:

(1) Personal rights specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 4, Article 19 of the 2005 Law on Intellectual Property (amended and supplemented in 2009 and 2019) are protected indefinitely.

(2) Personal rights specified in Clause 3, Article 19 and property rights specified in Article 20 of the 2005 Law on Intellectual Property (amended and supplemented in 2009, 2019) have the following protection period:

(i) For cinematographic works, photographic works, applied art works, and anonymous works, the term of protection is seventy-five years from the date of first publication of the work.

(ii) For cinematographic, photographic and applied art works that have not been published within twenty-five years from the date of their formation, the term of protection is one hundred years from the date of their formation.

(iii) For anonymous works, when information about the author appears, the term of protection is calculated according to the provisions in (iv).

(iv) Works not falling under the category specified in (i) have a term of protection that lasts the lifetime of the author and fifty years following the year of the author's death; in the case of a work with co-authors, the term of protection ends in the fiftieth year following the year of the death of the last co-author;

(v) The term of protection specified in (i) and (ii) shall terminate at 24:00 on December 31 of the year in which the term of copyright protection expires.