What is the subject of copyright?

Legal analysis: 1. Author: The citizen who creates works is the author. Creation refers to intellectual activities that produce literary, artistic and scientific works. Organizing work, providing suggestions and material conditions, or doing other auxiliary work for others' creation is not regarded as creation. Creation is a factual act, not a legal act, and is not limited by the ability of natural persons. However, the creative achievement must meet the conditions of the work, and the creative subject can obtain the identity of the author. If there is no proof to the contrary, the signed citizen, legal person or other organization shall be the author.

2. Heir: refers to the person who has obtained the property right of the work due to legal facts such as inheritance, gift, bequest and assignment. Successive copyright owners include heirs, donees, legatees, transferees, legal holders of original works and countries. The inheritor of copyright can only be the inheritor of the property right of the work, but not the inheritor of the personal right of the work, because the personal right of the work is not transferable.

3. Foreigners and stateless persons.

Legal basis: Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 9 Copyright owners include:

(1) author;

(2) Other natural persons, legal persons or unincorporated organizations that enjoy copyright according to this Law.

Article 11 Copyright belongs to the author, except as otherwise provided by this Law. The natural person who creates a work is the author. A work presided over by a legal person or an organization without legal personality, created on behalf of the will of the legal person or organization without legal personality, and for which the legal person or organization without legal personality is responsible, shall be regarded as the author.