Myanmar

Copyrightable works include the following categories:

• Literary and scientific works, textbooks, teaching materials, and other works expressed in written form
• 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 programs

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

• Moral rights are protected indefinitely.
• For economic rights and the right to publication, the copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 50 years after the author's death.
• For works of joint-authorship, the copyright subsists for 50 years after the last of the joint authors dies.