Legal Protection Of Copyrights Of The Legislative Review

Creation is human nature which differs from other animals, mankind's civilized history is the one with infinite creative spirit. Copyright itself is one of the great inventions in which honor, social status, and property lever the noble creative potential in everyone to improve and enrich people's material and moral life. There is a growing proportion of the output value concerning copyright product to the GNP in any country of this world esp . in highly developed countries.However, the out of infringing copyright accompanies the copyright system. With the rapid development of science and culture, there is a growing increase in such tort which harms the society more and more obviously. Great emphasis has been laid on the protection of copyright which is a concern in political, economic, scientific and cultural exchange internationally. It's a remarkable feature that copyright tends to be protected by the application If criminal low. Since 1980s the law of copyright has been amended frequently and the penalty for copyright violation is becoming increasingly serious in different countries of the world. In China, the system of copyright is taken as an important part in reform and open-up policy and socialist construction.Due to a late start in the copyright protection, not a few questions are still at the stage of investigation and argument. So does that in the field of criminal law . Mentally, people don't have an enough understanding of the social hazards of copyright violation, therefore it is difficult to make it equal to criminal offence. Theoretically, criminal law protection of copyright is lacking in systematical study. With the development of science and technology, new situations and problems arise in criminal legislation of copyright. Taking this into consideration, the writer makesan analysis of the legislative situation in the protection of copyright and compare it with that in developed areas and countries. From the angle of legislation self-criticism, the writer attempts to discuss the existing questions so as to raise some beneficial proposals for the establishment and improvement of copyright protection which fits the national condition and international practice.This paper consists of four parts.I Generalization of criminal law protection of copyright. It's mainly focused on the definition of copyright, the features of infringing copyrights and the necessity of copyright protection .II Current legislative situation in the penal protection of copyright.III Defects and inadequacy in the legislation of copyright penal protection.This topic is explored when compared with the situation in some developed areas or countries in the world.IV Legislative proposals for the copyright penal protection in China.