Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Kyrgyzstan/eo

This page provides an overview of copyright rules of Kyrgyzstan relevant to uploading works into Wikimedia Commons. Note that any work originating in Kyrgyzstan must be in the public domain, or available under a free license, in both Kyrgyzstan and the United States before it can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. If there is any doubt about the copyright status of a work from Kyrgyzstan, refer to the relevant laws for clarification.

The Kyrgyz state, once independent, was incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1876. It became part of the Russian SFSR in 1919 as the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast. In 1936 the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic became a full republic of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet break-up, the republic became fully independent in 1991.

Kyrgyzstan has been a member of the Berne Convention since 8 July 1999, the WIPO treaty since 6 March 2002 and the World Trade Organization since 20 December 1998.

As of 2018 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an agency of the United Nations, listed Law No. 6 of January 14, 1998, on Copyright and Related Rights (as amended up to Law No. 42 of March 9, 2017) as the main copyright law enacted by the legislature of Kyrgyzstan.^[1] WIPO holds the text of this law in their WIPO Lex database.

Under Law No. 6 as of 2017,

• Copyright lasts for the life of the author and 50 years after death.^{[2017 Article 27(1)]}
• Copyright in a work of joint authorship lasts during the lives of the authors and 50 years after death of the last survivor.^{[2017 Article 27(2)]}
• Copyright in anonymous or pseudonymous works lasts for 50 years from 1 January of the year following the year of publication.^{[2017 Article 27(3)]}

The compiler of a collective work such as an encyclopedia, encyclopedic dictionary, collection of scientific works, newspaper, magazine and other periodical publication has exclusive rights in the publication. However, unless otherwise agreed by contract, the authors of the works included in such publications retain the exclusive rights to the use of their contributions elsewhere.^{[2017 Article 11]}

Law No. 6 as of 2017 states that the following works are not subject to copyright^{[2017 Article 8]}:

• Official documents (laws, regulations, decisions, etc.), as well as their official translations;
• Official symbols and signs (flags, emblems, medals, monetary signs, etc.);
• Works of folk art;
• Regular press information that constitute the daily news or information on current events;