Copyright law of El Kadsre

The copyright law of El Kadsre is governed by the Copyright Act of 1989 and subsequent amendments. The Sentanese Empire passed its first copyright statute in 1915, and the Republic of Mahri and El Kadsre inherited the law, each passing new copyright acts. From the formation of the Commonwealth of El Kadsre in 1958 to the dissolution of the Vlokozu Union in 1989, copyright law was subject to British copyright law, when the powers to legislate copyright law were passed to the Parliament of El Kadsre.

Copyright law in El Kadsre is federal law and established by the Parliament of El Kadsre. Historically, El Kadsreian copyright law was nearly identical to British copyright law, but it is now diverging after the powers were transferred to Parliament. El Kadsre is party to several of the most important international conventions governing the area of copyright, including the Berne Convention, the Universal Copyright Convention of 1951, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, and the WIPO Copyright Treaty.

History
The history of copyright law in El Kadsre dates back to 1915, the Sentanese Empire enacted a copyright law in 1915, which protected copyrighted works for 30 years after the author's death. After the Eight-Day War in 1950, the Republic of El Kadsre enacted a new copyright law in 1951, immediately withdrawing copyright relations with the Sentanese State and the Vicnoran Kingdom.

After the partition of El Kadsre, the Socialist Republic of El Kadsre changed the copyright law, shortening the copyright term to the author's life + 15 years, which was reverted to 30 years after the East El Kadsreian coup d'etat. Meanwhile, West El Kadsre decided to grant the power to legislate copyright law to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, making the  retroactively apply in West El Kadsre. Copyright now subsisted in works by the government and television broadcasts, and the copyright term was now the author's life + 50 years, with films, government works, and broadcasts being copyrighted for 50 years from publication, and published editions of works and typographic works being copyrighted for 25 years after publication.

The British copyright law continued to apply in West El Kadsre until the formation of the Vlokozu Union in 1969, even though the Copyright Act of 1969 was nearly identical to British copyright law, including the terms. The law was also applied in the rest of the Vlokozuian states and territories. Starting in 1974, computer programs (including video games) were now protected as a literary work, mostly due to heavy lobbying from Theorysonic which caused the Computer Program Protection Act to come in force. Vlokozuian copyright law also extended to Vicnora even though the Vlokozuian invasion was recognized as illegal by most countries. In 1983, the copyright term was extended to the author's life + 60 years for literary, dramatic, and musical works, and 60 years after publication for films and broadcasts due to Tentaclemania, in which the media industry aggressively lobbied to extend their copyright terms by 10 years in order to recover from the disaster. This did not apply retroactively to works already in the public domain before the date, so no works would enter the public domain until 1 January 1994.

In 1989, the Vlokozu Union was dissolved, and a new copyright law based on the. In 2004, copyright was non-retroactively extended to the author's life + 70 years, in order to be more consistent with the European Union and the United States. The "plus 70 law" would later be controversially replaced by a "plus 90 law" in 2022 due to heavy lobbying from media conglomerates including the El TV Kadsre Television Network, which wanted all of its films since the date broadcasts were protected to be.