The Legal Protection Of Folk Music Works

The legal protection of folklore expression has already discussed in world for a long time. Take all difficulty into account, even someone call it "Goldbach Conjecture in legal area". From 1960s, some developing countries started to attempt legislate through their domestic law to protect the expression of folklore, and these attempts have also brought to the correlation international organization's attention. Take WIPO and UNESCO as a core, the international organizations had carried out a series of activities of protecting expressions of folklore, and has enacted model provisions national laws on the protection of expression of folklore in 1982.The question has already caused highly consideration in various countries all around the world, and great amount of scholars also put forward each kind of protecting proposal to solve this problem. The scope of folklore expression is so wide that tending to boundlessly and most representative kind of its is the folk music works. Moreover nowadays there are practices appeared many times about the case related folk music works. Therefore, it extremely had the necessity to separate the folk music works from folklore expression on the discussion. In this paper, author started from the folk music works related concept explanation, separating the folk music works from the traditional knowledge and folklore expression. After narrating the related case, author has analyzed the conception and the characteristic of folk music works. Then...