Copyright Registration
Copyright protection in Vietnam exists automatically once a work is created, but a Copyright Registration Certificate from the Copyright Office gives the author or owner a public, government-issued record — valuable evidence if ownership is ever disputed.
Registration is not mandatory to hold copyright, but it shifts the burden of proof — a registered work is presumed to belong to the certificate holder unless someone else proves otherwise, rather than the author having to prove authorship from scratch.
Table of Contents
Required Documents
To register copyright, the author needs to prepare the following documents and records:; Declaration of copyright registration (according to the corresponding form in Circular 08/2023/TT-BVHTTDL dated June 2, 2023 Circular stipulating forms in copyright and related rights registration activities). The declaration must be made in Vietnamese and signed by the author, the copyright owner, the related right holder or the person authorized to submit the dossier. The declaration must contain complete information about the applicant, the author, the copyright owner or the related rights holder. The declaration should contain a summary of the work, performance, sound recording, video recording or br
Validity
Pursuant to Article 27 of the 2005 Intellectual Property Law, amendments and supplements to Clause 8, Article 1 of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2009 Intellectual Property Law:
- Moral rights of the author: The right to name the work
- The right to have real or pseudonymous names on the work
- be given a real name or a pseudonym when the work is published or used
- The right to protect the integrity of the work, to prevent others from modifying, mutilating or otherwise distorting the work in any way that is prejudicial to the honor and reputation of the author is protected indefinitely.
- The right to publish a work or to permit others to publish the work and prop
Legal basis: Decree 17/2023/ND-CP, Law on Intellectual Property 2005, Article 8 of Decree 17/2023/ND-CP detailing a number of articles and measures to enforce the intellectual property law on copyright and related rights. Content last verified 2026-07-29.
More questions about Copyright Registration
25+ answers exist in RedTab's knowledge base for this service — a further selection below.
Explore Your Options
Tell us about the work you want to register — RedTab will follow up with next steps and a scoped quote.
Explore Your Options
Tell us about your Vietnam market-entry plan. We'll follow up with next steps — this isn't a final quote until scope is confirmed.