The author has the right to decide whether or not to make public (the right of publication), the right to sign on the works, to modify or authorize others to modify the works, and the rights to protect the works from distortion. All the aforesaid rights are personal rights. Except for the right of publication, other personal rights are free from the limits of protection.
Also, the author enjoys property rights, i.e. the right to get economic benefits through the use or disposal of the works, or to receive compensation by authorizing other people to use or dispose of the works. Ways of use or disposal: reproduction, performance, broadcasting, exhibition, distribution, publication, the making of cinematographic, television and video works, adaptation, translation, annotation or compilation etc. The right of publication and the property rights are limited by a certain protection period. The protection period of a natural person's works is the whole life of the author and fifty years after his death. The protection period of the works of legal persons or non-legal units and the movie, TV program, video, photographic work is fifty years after its first publication. If the works isn't published in the fifty years after being created, the Copyright Law will not protect it anymore.