论著作权的合理使用制度

合理使用是现代各国著作权法普遍采用的一项法律制度。经过一个多世纪的司法实践与理论酝酿,这一制度率先为英美法系国家确认继而成为现代各国著作权立法的通例。伴随着新传播技术的出现,合理使用制度面临着更为严格的权利限制,在新修改的《著作权法》中,部分缩小了合理使用的范围,在一定程度上保护了著作权人的权利,但在顾及现代著作权立法的趋势向国际规范靠拢的同时,对此规则在适用范围和适用条件方面应作出更为严密而且具体的规定。文章通过对合理使用制度的产生、含义、法律性质等方面的分析阐述,对其中几个有待完善的问题作了有益的探讨。

Discussion on the fair use system of the copyright

The fair use is a law system that is adopted widely by all countries’copyright law in modern times. Through more than one century’s judicial practice and theory gestation, this system had been affirmed by Anglo-American law system countries firstly, and then, it had become the legislative general rule of modern copyright. With the appearance of new communication technology, the fair use system faces more strict right restriction, the new amended"copyright law"partly reduced the area of fair use, protected the right of copyright owner to some extent, but considering the legislation tendency of the modern copyright toward to international standard, it has made more strict and specific stipulation on the applying scope and applying condition of the fair use. Through analyzing the production, meaning, legal nature of fair use system, this paper discusses several questions that wait for consummating.