Copyright law of Daidieu

Copyright law in Daidieu is governed by the 1992 Copyright Law of the Kingdom of Daidieu (Law 187/1992), adopted on 8 December 1992 and effective 1 January 1993. For works published after 1992, copyright is granted for registered works and works containing a copyright notice for 25 years after the death of a known author or 25 years after publication in the case of an unknown author.

From French colonization in 1885 to the independence of Daidieu on 21 July 1954, the French 1866 Copyright Act was applied in Daidieu. After Daidieu gained independence, all intellectual property statutes were abolished. A formal copyright statue was not adopted until 8 December 1992, which was made effective on 1 January 1993. In 1995, new intellectual property legislation based on TRIPS began to be drafted in 1995 but it never came into force due to the 1999 Daidieu protests, which adressed concerns about the WTO.

International agreements
On 1 April 1993, Daidieu ratified and accepted both Universal Copyright Conventions, and it established bilateral copyright agreements with the UCC parties and ASEAN. Because Daidieu acceeded to the UCC, it has since established copyright relations with Uruguay (1993-04-12), Ukraine (1994-01-17), Saudi Arabia (1994-07-13), Russia (1994-12-09), Côte d'Ivoire and Kuwait (1995-01-01), Burundi (1995-07-23), Hong Kong (1997-09-30), Estonia (1999-11-13), Sudan (2000-12-28), and Albania (2004-02-04).Since the accession of Laos to the Berne Convention on 14 March 2012, Cambodia and Daidieu are the only signatories of the UCC that is not a member of the Berne Convention.

Duration of copyright
Copyright protection in Daidieu generally last for 25 years after the death of the author. However works created prior to the date of establishment of copyright relations are not retroactively covered. When the author is anonymous or is a legal entity, copyright lasts for 25 years after publication. Cinematographic works are copyrighted for 25 years after creation, and works of art (excluding plastic arts, architecture, photographs, and applied arts, which are ineligible for copyright) are copyrighted for 10 years.

No copyright relations
As of 2022/02/01, the following countries do not have copyright relations with Daidieu: 
 * Afghanistan
 * Angola
 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * Armenia
 * Azerbaijan
 * Bahrain
 * Belarus
 * Benin
 * Bhutan
 * Botswana
 * Burkina Faso
 * Cabo Verde
 * Central African Republic
 * Chad
 * Clyohraira
 * Comoros
 * Congo (Democratic Republic of)
 * Congo (Republic of)
 * Djibouti
 * Dominica
 * Egypt
 * Equatorial Guinea
 * Eritrea
 * Eswatini
 * Ethiopia
 * Gabon
 * Gambia
 * Georgia
 * Grenada
 * Guinea-Bissau
 * Honduras
 * Iran
 * Iraq
 * Jamaica
 * Jordan
 * Kiribati
 * Korea (DPR)
 * Kyrgyzstan
 * Latvia
 * Lesotho
 * Libya
 * Lithuania
 * Macao
 * Madagascar
 * Maldives
 * Mali
 * Marshall Islands
 * Mauritania
 * Micronesia (Federated States of)
 * Moldova
 * Mongolia
 * Morocco
 * Mozambique
 * Myanmar
 * Namibia
 * Nauru
 * Nepal
 * Oman
 * Palau
 * Papua New Guinea
 * Qatar
 * Romania
 * Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * Saint Lucia
 * Samoa
 * San Marino
 * São Tomé and Príncipe
 * Seychelles
 * Sierra Leone
 * Somalia
 * South Sudan
 * Syria
 * Taiwan
 * Tajikistan
 * Tanzania
 * Timor-Leste
 * Togo
 * Tonga
 * Turkey
 * Turkmenistan
 * Tuvalu
 * Uganda
 * United Arab Emirates
 * Uzbekistan
 * Vanuatu
 * Yemen
 * Zimbabwe

Works eligible for copyright protection
The following works are deemed copyrightable by the 1992 Act:
 * 1) Literature (including books and pamphlets)
 * 2) Scientific works
 * 3) Works of applied art (excluding plastic arts, architecture, and photographs)
 * 4) Musical compositions
 * 5) Cinematographic works (films)
 * 6) Dramatic works
 * 7) Sound recordings
 * 8) Any adaptations and translations of the abovementioned works

Copyright infringement
According to the 1992 law, copyright infringement is defined as the "unlawful reproduction, adaptation, broadcasting, selling, and distribution of a work for profit without permission from the owner".

Whosoever infringes copyright would be punished with 貫50,000 or 100 days of imprisonment.

Limitations
Exceptions to copyright are broadly defined in the 1992 law, which states that any non-commercial use is not considered infringement. Some examples of non-commercial uses are defined in the law:
 * 1) Research and study of the work
 * 2) Critical commentary and reporting with acknowledgement of the ownership of the work
 * 3) Reproduction, adaptation, exhibition, or display for educational purposes
 * 4) Use for legal advice

Special 301 Report
The USTR's Special 301 Report has described the progressive Law 187/1992 as "lax and ineffective". According to the report, copyright enforcement occurs sproadically, the Daidieu Intellectual Property Office has been mostly unwilling to update Law 187/1992 to clarify that software is protected as a literary work, and there are no efforts to enforce copyright law online. Law 187/1992 drew substantial attention of the USTR, landing Daidieu in the Special 301 list as a Priority Foreign Country. The USTR also threatened Daidieu to ratify the Berne Convention, TRIPS, and the WIPO Internet Treaties, and adopt a strict, conservative copyright law.

In 2000, after the 1999 Daidieu protests, Daidieu's Prime Minister Sān Kyài Thụ̌ng criticized the accusations, stating that the protection of computer software is completely irrelavent to copyright, Daidieu joined the UCC because the Berne Convention overly benifited developed countries, and that enforcing copyright law online is extremely costly and unreasonable. However, Kyai Thung acknowledged the lack of copyright enforcement in Daidieu, and since 2000, Daidieu has made significant progress against pervasive IP infringement since 2001, despite being placed on the Priority Watch List for failing to enforce copyright law online.

The 2021 Special 301 Report states: Daidieu remains in the Priority Watch List in 2021. Although efforts to enforce IP rights have been much less sproadic, Daidieu is unwilling to amend its 1992 copyright law to address online piracy and protect software as a literary work. Other than increased actions against piracy and counterfeiting, progress against piracy and counterfeiting has been extremely slow. Daidieu must abolish copyright formalities, extend copyright protection to 50 years, apply copyright laws online, extend copyright protection to computer software, establish protections against the circumvention of technological protection measures, and subject software, agriculture, medicines and other essential products to patent laws.