Study On Copyright Of College Textbooks

Copyright is a general term, based on works of literary, artistic andscientific fields, for personal and property rights of authors and other rightsholders. How to enlarge the law and economic interests of creation,originality and intellectual achievements in some tangible form of copyprotection is most concerned by author and other copyright holders. Withthe development of copyright, the scope of copyright protection is alsoexpanding. However, the new tort also continue to emerge. At present,institutions of higher learning teaching materials also began to face theproblem of copyright infringement and protection. Institutions of higherlearning teaching materials as a kind of textbook with uniqueness, creativeand academic value may be far greater than the ordinary materials. it isnecessary to in-depth study of college textbook copyright in order toconduct a comprehensive protection, protect the interests of the copyrightholders of university teaching materials and promote the emergence ofbetter teaching materials.Nowadays the problem of college textbook copyright, althoughinvolved by academia, but not comprehensive or in-depth. In order to betterbalance between the interests of the users and the the rights holdrs, thispaper attempts to discourse this subject from four parts:The first part intends to define the terms of College TextbooksCopyrights. The connotation of the correct definition is the starting pointfor research in any one thing. The College Textbooks Copyright also need to start from this point with the content, classification, features as well asthe protection of copyrights in China.The second part involves the analysis of the ownership of thecopyrights of college textbooks. Drawing on some relevant provisions ofthe copyright ownership of other countries, this part is mainly about themain contents of the copyrights of college textbook, the copyrightownership of the college textbook classification and the analysis ofmaterials in digital age.The third part is the about the college textbook copyright restrictions.Unrestricted righ is no exception, but all restrictions should be controlledwithin a reasonable range. This part is to start from the basic theory ofcollege textbook copyright restrictions, combined with China’s laws andforeign practices, from the rational use of the comparative analysis by thestatutory license two aspects of copyright issues on college textbooks.And the fourth part is about the infringement and protection of collegetextbooks. This part concludes the forms, reasons of the infringement ofcopyrights and also offers some advices on deepening the protection of thecopyrights of teaching materials.