Commons:Government works/Asia

Government works
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This page gives overviews of rules for government works in different countries or territories of Asia. These are works made by or for a national or sub-national government, or works whose copyright is held by a national or sub-national government. The rules are "transcluded" from individual page sections giving the rules for each territory.

Countries of Asia

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COM:GVT Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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COM:GVT Armenia

Armenia

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COM:GVT Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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Bahrain

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COM:GVT Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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Bhutan

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COM:GVT Brunei

Brunei

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COM:GVT Cambodia

Cambodia

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COM:GVT 中国 / 中國

China

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COM:GVT Cyprus

Cyprus

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COM:GVT East Timor

East Timor

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COM:GVT Egypt

Egypt

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COM:GVT Georgia

Georgia

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COM:GVT India

India

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COM:GVT Indonesia

Indonesia

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Iran

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Iraq

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Israel

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Japan

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Jordan

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Kazakhstan

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Kuwait

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Kyrgyzstan

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COM:GVT Laos

Laos

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COM:GVT Lebanon

Lebanon

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COM:GVT Malaysia

Malaysia

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Maldives

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COM:GVT Mongolia

Mongolia

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COM:GVT မြန်မာပြည်

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Commons:Copyright rules by territory/မြန်မာပြည်

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COM:GVT Nepal

Nepal

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COM:GVT North Korea

North Korea

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Oman

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Pakistan

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COM:GVT Philippines

Philippines

Works made by the government, or by government employees, are not protected by copyright:

No copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for exploitation of such work for profit. Such agency or office may, among other things, impose as a condition the payment of royalties. No prior approval or conditions shall be required for the use for any purpose of statutes, rules and regulations, and speeches, lectures, sermons, addresses, and dissertations, pronounced, read or rendered in courts of justice, before administrative agencies, in deliberative assemblies and in meetings of public character.^{[8293/2015 Section 176.1]}

The clause for prior approval is determined to be a non-copyright restriction and can be safely ignored for the purposes of Wikimedia Commons by policy. Therefore works of the Philippine Government is considered to be under the Public Domain. See discussion for {{PD-PhilippineGov}}.

The government may acquire copyright in a work, which will continue to last for the normal duration:

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest or otherwise; nor shall publication or republication by the government in a public document of any work in which copyright is subsisting be taken to cause any abridgment or annulment of the copyright or to authorize any use or appropriation of such work without the consent of the copyright owner.^{[8293/2015 Section 176.3]}

For further information, refer to:

Copyright protection over the works of the Government – October 15, 2019 BusinessWorld article, by Mary Erica D. Manuel, Associate of the Intellectual Property Department of the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALAW)
IPOPHL Memorandum Circular No. 2020 - 024: Copyright Rules and Regulations for the Government – 2020 Implementing Rules and Regulations by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (via Google Drive)

Philippine News Agency content - Unsure

The website of the Philippine News Agency contains terms of use stating that content on the website can only "be downloaded or printed for your own personal and non-commercial use only of not more than five (5) articles/photos per day." It adds that commercial use requires "written consent of NIB-PNA." The News and Information Bureau of the Philippine government repeats this copyright claim: "All contents of this site are protected by Philippines copyright laws under Republic Act No. 8293, known as the Intellectual Property (IP) Code of the Philippines, and may not be reproduced, distributed, altered, published or broadcast for commercial use without prior permission from PNA and its mother unit, the News and Information Bureau (NIB). However, the public may freely use PNA news contents with proper attribution for personal use only particularly in disseminating latest articles for public consumption in social media such as Facebook and Twitter." See also: Category:Philippine News Agency-related deletion requests.

Provincial government websites

Official websites of some Philippine provinces bear copyright-related terms of use, such as those of Agusan del Sur and of Iloilo, notwithstanding what is dictated in the law that no copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government.

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COM:GVT Qatar

A literary, dramatic or musical work made by or under the direction or control of the Government is in the public domain if 70 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published by or under the direction or control of the Government.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 197(3)(b)]}
An artistic work made by or under the direction or control of the Government is in the public domain in the following situations:
- If it is a photograph —
  - made before 10 April 1987, 70 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which the work was made.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 197(4), 231]}
  - made on or after 10 April 1987, 70 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 197(4A)]}
- If it is an engraving, 70 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 197(4A)]}
- If it is an artistic work other than an engraving or a photograph, if 70 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which the work was made.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 197(4)]}
A cinematograph film made by or under the direction or control of the Government is in the public domain in the following situations:^{[63/2006-2018 Section 197(5)]}
- If it was made before 10 April 1987, it is an original dramatic work that is in the public domain, and photographs forming part of the film are also in the public domain (see the preceding paragraphs).^{[63/2006-2018 Section 233]}
- If it was made on or after 10 April 1987, 70 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 88,93]}
A sound recording made by or under the direction or control of the Government is in the public domain in the following situations:^{[63/2006-2018 Section 197(5)]}
- If it was made before 10 April 1987, 70 years have passed since the expiration of the calendar year in which the recording was made.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 219(4), 232]}
- If it was made on or after 10 April 1987, 70 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which the recording was first published.^{[63/2006-2018 Section 92]}

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COM:GVT South Korea

Limited recognition

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COM:GVT Abkhazia

Other territories

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COM:GVT Akrotiri and Dhekelia

partly located in Asia

Government works
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Countries of Asia

Limited recognition

Other territories

partly located in Asia

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