How long is the copyright term of the paper? Only when a work is created does it have copyright, and the paper belongs to a written work and also has copyright to a certain extent. For this reason, many people will give their papers a copyright registration, but after giving their papers a copyright registration, many people want to know the time they can use. How long is the copyright term of the paper? 1. How long is the copyright term of the paper? Fifty years. 2. The law stipulates that the term of protection of Article 20 of the Copyright Law is unlimited. Article 21 The protection period of citizens' right of publication and the rights stipulated in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law shall be the author's life and fifty years after his death, and shall end on 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after his death; If it is a cooperative work, the deadline is 65438+February 3 1 50 years after the death of the last dead author. The term of protection for the works of a legal person or other organization and the works in which a legal person or other organization enjoys the right to publish and the rights stipulated in Items (5) to (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works, but the works have not been published within fifty years after the completion of the creation. For cinematographic works and works created by similar cinematographic or photographic methods, the term of protection of the right of publication and the rights specified in Item (5) to Item (17) of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of this Law is fifty years, ending at 65438+February 3 1 day in the fiftieth year after the first publication of the works. However, if the work is not published within 50 years after the creation is completed, this law will no longer protect it.