Copyright law of Brazil

[a] The first legal document to deal with the protection of creative works in Brazil was the Law of 11 August 1827, which gave jurist course professors exclusive publication rights to their course's compendia for the 10 years following their approval by the government.[4] It protected any text ("or stamp") which had been written, composed or translated by Brazilian citizens, for the lifetime of the author, plus 10 years if they had any heirs.[13] Crucially, this protection wasn't automatic: it was required that works be submitted to the National Library of Brazil until 31 December of the year following the publication.[14] A side effect of this time limit is that it would have made works created before 1897 uncopyrightable, as they would need to have been registered before the law was even promulgated.This would, for instance, prohibit the transferring of paid-for (whole) songs from a computer to a phone,[23] or the photocopying of otherwise unavailable books by students to study at home.[25] This understanding was codified in the Penal Code of Brazil in 2003, essentially shielding offenders from criminal liability when copying for private use:[24][26] Art.Violating author's rights and those related to it: [...] § 4th The provisions at §§ 1st, 2nd and 3rd do not apply when dealing with exception or limitation to author's rights or those related to it, in conformity with the provisions of Law nº 9,610, of 19 February 1998, or with copy of intellectual work or phonogram, in a single exemplar, for private use by the copyist, without direct or indirect profit motive.
Production photo of the film Banana da Terra (1939), starring Carmen Miranda . According to current copyright legislation in Brazil, this photo (and the film) entered the public domain 70 years after 1 January 1940; that is, in 2010.
Photograph taken on 17 May 1888 depicting a mass celebrating the abolition of slavery in Brazil . As the Brazilian copyright law of the time did not consider artworks – much less photography, which was still in its infancy – the reproduction of such a photo would not be illegal.
Because the 1898 law set a time limit for the registration of works to acquire copyrights, any work created before 1897 would be uncopyrightable. This is the case of this portrait illustration of Prudente de Morais , third president of Brazil , by Gustavo Dall'Ara [ pt ] , created in 1896.
Banana da TerraCarmen MirandaBrazilBerne ConventionTRIPS AgreementImperial Constitution of 1824creative workspatentsjuristcompendiaabolition of slavery in Brazilwritten worksartworkbarely invented photographsProclamation of the RepublicPrudente de Moraispresident of BrazilanonymouspseudonymNational Library of Brazillithographscopyrightpublic domainperiodicalsPublic speechesPortraitsLiteraryartisticscientific worksvisually impairednoncommercialbraillequotationlecture notescommercializeTheatrical representationdidacticjudiciaryevidenceplastic artsParaphrasingparodyingfreedom of panoramapublic spacephotocopyinglegal scholarsPenal Code of BrazilBerne three-step testPortal Domínio Públicopatent infringementCâmara dos DeputadosFederal University of Rio de JaneiroCopyright acts by countryCopyright case law by countryCopyright lengths by countryInternational copyright treatiesby countryrelated rightsRule of the shorter termBurundiCameroonSenegalSouth AfricaArgentinaBermudaBoliviaCanadaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorHondurasPanamaUnited StatesVenezuelaAfghanistanAzerbaijanBangladeshHong KongIndonesiaJordanKazakhstanNorth KoreaSouth KoreaMalaysiaMyanmarPakistanPhilippinesSaudi ArabiaSri LankaTajikistanThailandEuropean UnionFranceGermanyGreeceIrelandNetherlandsPolandRomaniaSwedenAlbaniaGeorgiaMoldovaRussiaRussian FederationSerbiaSwitzerlandTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomAustraliaNew Zealand