Study On Copyrights Aroased By Hyperlink In The Electronic Commerce

With the advent of internet times, electronic trades based on internet become more and more frequent. Internet Electronic Commerce (EC) —the new trade pattern has fiercely influenced economic and trade activities—has been propelled nearly through everywhere in the whole world.Various internet techniques related with the Electronic Commerce while boosting the global trade, lowering the trade cost and accelerating the enterprises' efficiency, have challenged the traditional legal idea and system on it. For example, the Hyperlink that is widely applied in electronic commerce is one among them. The application of Hyperlink in the EC has inevitably impacted the copyright system of the traditional intellectual property.Hyperlink in the EC induces copyright problems mainly happen in the direct EC, the copyright objects involved mainly are the new style works—digital works. Numerous digital works accumulated and linked on the internet become exchangeable digital works, while the digital works break through the traditional forms of copyright objects, the regional character, the exclusive character and so on. Hyperlink has provided the spread and trade of digital works with convenience, explored the market, while it has caused the conflict between the copyright protection of digital works and the development of the EC. At this situation, scholars begin to focus on the question how to do to balance the interests between the copyright owners and the operators in the EC, the supplier or the public.Hyperlink phenomenons only exist in the internet, while in real world it has not...