The Civil Law Protection Of Public Figures Reputation Right In China

A public figure is in a certain range is widely known and concerned, known in the life of celebrities, because of their own behavior and bring negative influences to social workers. As government officials, movie stars, sports stars, famous artists, cultural science, war criminals such as the enemy of society etc. According to the concept of public figures and its main features, it can be classified as the following: according to the subjective state of public figures, can be divided into voluntary and involuntary public figures and public figures; according to the nature of public figures can be divided into political public figures and social public figures. At present, from the "Fan Zhiyi v. Oriental Sports Report" to the "Yueming Pan case" reputation dispute, our country court in violation of the right of reputation of public figures in the case when no specific legal basis, lead to "some sentence" phenomenon. The American for protection of the right of reputation of public figures is the perfect legal basis, from case law to statute law,"Sally" appeared in the "public officials" to the later perfect "public figures" American laws are in perfect public figures reputation legal protection system. Some European countries as well as the legal protection of the right of reputation of public figures (the British dependency tort law system to realize the indirect protection of the right of reputation. Germany to the dignity of human personality as the core of reputation of field protection) can explain China’s protection of the right of reputation of public figures is relatively still not perfect.At present, including China’s protection on the right of reputation of public figures including:legal provisions are not clear standards of public figures, the definition of civil liability clearly do not infringe the right of reputation of public figures, the lack of relevant provisions of the public figure of the litigation system, there is no specific for the right of reputation of public figures. In the future through a comparative study of public figures reputation system, provide some suggestions on the construction of our public figures reputation system:defining the standard for the public figure, perfecting the infringement of the right of reputation of public figures, legal responsibility norms formulated the protection of personality rights corresponding to the special protection of the reputation of public figures, the relevant provisions in civil litigation, the civil legal regulations.