• Validity of the copyright protection period before expiry: for the author's life.
• Validity of the copyright protection period after the death of the author(s): 70 years.

Copyright is an exclusive right and it lasts for the entire lifetime of the author plus a period of 70 years after his or her death. When it comes to the collective works, the term of 70 years starts running from the day of legal publication of the work. If it involves a work of an anonymous author, the said term is calculated in the same way. If the subject matter of copyright on a collective work or a computer program is a legal entity, copyright runs for 70 years from the disclosure of the work or the creation of the computer program.