Study On Private Copying Levy System In Digital Environment

The private copyright compensation system is an important pioneering work for protecting the copyright for the European and American countries, the development of digital technology leads to the break of benefit balance between copyright holder and user, in order to maintain such a kind of important benefits status, the balance system of copyright compensation come out. In the digital age, the technology development makes duplication as easy as pie, and the come out of internet turns communication into a simple operation, so the fruit of the copyright holders may become universal just because of one consumer's using. So in the face of such dilemma compensation system is urgently needed to mediate such conflict. While in China, there is no such a system currently, in this case I think it is necessary to study the significant system affecting the digital environment greatly.The first part of this essay mainly introduces the background of compensation system appearing, the technology development leads to the popularization of private copying, and the correlations between private copying and proper application, which leads to the copyright compensation system bellowed.The second part introduces the copyright compensation system to readers from the viewpoint of intention, history and operation through summarizing the copyright compensation system. And then introduces the determination on the nature of this system legally.The third part mainly elaborates the condition of copyright compensation system in the digital environment, through comparing the inferiority between this system and other copyright protecting system to prove that the copyright compensation system is a necessary choice for solving private copying. And then discuss the point of what is the best choice for China in both international and domestic environment.The fourth part thinks about the necessity for China to introduce the copyright compensation system and the existing problems in China, rethinks how to introduce this system based on current problems. Especially during the establishment process, we had better carry out the process based on our national conditions, to analyze the qualification we lacked for introducing this system.