Study On The Copyright Infringement Caused By Network Video

The popularization and development of the Internet gave birth to the emerging of the network video, and this has brought new problems to the traditional copyright law. When enjoying the benefits of new technologies and new applications, I think about the copyright issues involved. When the internet users upload infringing videos to the network storage, or upload and download infringing videos by using the P2P software, whether should the network platform providers bear the responsibility?To solve the problem above, we start with the first chapter of a typical network problems caused by infringing video. We define the network video copyright in the second chapter, and then we analyze three common Copyright infringement like the network TV software, video sharing sites and P2P software. In the third chapter, we discuss the type, the responsibility and the disclaimer of the violations, especially focusing on the"safe harbor principle". In the forth chapter we propose some solutions taking into account of the current status of the protection of the online video copyright.This paper has a topic of studying the responsibility of the online video service providers, and has a comprehensive analysis of the new features of copyright in the network environment. I hope that this will help to search a set of realistic solutions to constrain the rights related and to balance the interests of all parties, which will benefit the gradually improving protection of the information network transmission right.