Copyright concerns the protection of «original works with creative nature» belonging to literature, music, figurative arts, architecture, theatre, films, whatever their mode or form of expression. Nowadays software programs, databases and industrial designs can be protected by copyrights too assuming they are original and have creative character.
Copyright protection includes moral rights that regard the Author’s personality and economic rights arising from the economic use of the work.
The moral rights, such as for example the right to claim the authorship of the work, the right to claim the integrity of the work, etc.. they are inalienable, imprescriptible and eternal. Those rights cannot be transferred and even in case of assignment of rights of economic use of the work, the Author or, after death, their heirs will always retain the moral rights.
The rights of economic use of the work, such as for example the rights to make reproductions , to broadcast, recite or perform in public, translate, make arrangements, can be purchased, sold or assigned to other parties, in all forms and ways permitted by law.
Those rights last for Author’s lifetime and for 70 years after their death, afterwards, the work will be of public domain and anyone can freely use it.
