Protection of Photographs

July 24, 2009
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

Each new technology for creative work has led to debates over the protection that should be accorded to such works, as has been the case most recently for software copyright and database rights:  similar debates occurred over the copyright protection of photographs.

The Berne Convention allows a shorter period of protection than for other works (twenty-five years from creation rather than fifty years post mortem), and many countries apply a different period of copyright protection to photographs than to other works.

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