Vietnam

According to Intellectual Property Law of Vietnam, copyrightable works include the following categories:

• Literary and scientific works, textbooks, teaching materials, and other works expressed in forms of letters
• Lectures, presentations, speeches
• Journalistic works
• Musical works
• Dramatic works
• Cinematographic works and works created by similar methods
• Fine art and applied art works
• Photographic works
• Architectural works
• Graphics, sketches, maps, drawings, topographical works
• Folk artistic and literary works
• Computer programs and compilations of data

Related rights subject matters include:

• Performances
• Phonograms
• Broadcasting programs
• Satellite signals carrying encrypted program

• Information merely for news reporting purpose such as daily short pieces of news
• Legal normative documents, administrative documents, other documents in the judicial sector
• Processes, systems, method of operation, definitions, principles and statistics

Terms of protection are stipulated by Article 27 of Intellectual Property Law:

• Moral right is protected indefinitely.
• For economic rights and the right to publication of works, terms of protection depend on categories. The copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 50 years after the author dies.
• For works of joint-authorship, the copyright subsists for 50 years after the last of the joint authors dies.