Network Environment Under The Copyright Law Research

As the fourth media after the traditional media, network emerges as sudden as lightning, and the transmitting speed and mode of network information challenges thetraditional media--how to define the network transmission right? How to realizethe interest balance of intellectual property right in network environment? And the collective management system of network productions, all these are the core problems of the paper.My paper can be divided into three parts. The first part is about transmission right of information network. By introducing the legal status, composing factors and classification of networks productions, it defines the network productions. Then it points out the different attempts in order to adjusting the transmitting action of works in network, it in turn produces transmission right of information network. Finally it explains the relevant legislative practice by examples of foreign countries and China.The second is about the network copyright limitation. The main viewpoint is that limiting the rights of the owners is the adjustor between the transmitter of works and the public. The copyright limitation expresses chiefly in such three aspects as reasonable usage, legal permission and coercing permission.The third part is about the collective management system of network productions. It first reveals the origin and development of network productions. Then it points out the legal status of collective management organization. Finally it proposes the plan to carry out the copyright collective management in network environment.