The Copyright Code of Great Qing Dynasty was issued in 1910. In the early 20th century, the internal and external situations required political reform to be put on the agenda. The Qing Government assigned Shen Jiaben and Wu Tingfang as the law ministers. They later introduced the western legal system and developed a series of laws, thus opening the prelude to the evolution of the modern law. The Copyright Code of Great Qing Dynasty as a special protection law on copyright was born in this far-reaching historical change.
According to the historical records, the Copyright Code of Great Qing Dynasty consists of five chapters, namely, general rules, the duration of right, submission, and limitation of right and supplementary. It also included fifty-five items regulating on the definition of copyright, the scope of the involved work, the author’s rights, the procedures to obtain copyright, copyright duration, the copyright limits and other issues as well.
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