| This paper research on the legal system of China’s WeChat copyright, since the launch of the WeChat Tencent Inc in 2011, WeChat had rapidly grown popularity of new media applications in China, which greatly enriched people’s daily lives. The data released by Tencent Inc in August 2015 shows that till the end of 2011, the WeChat registered users has exceeded the amount of 6 billion. By the end of the first quarter of 2015, WeChat has covered more than 90% of China’s smartphone, users covering more than 200 countries, 20 languages, which made WeChat impressively the highest mobile instant communication tools in Asia user network. Nowadays, WeChat has become the hottest self-media.Wechat got a lot of benefits, such as information dissemination convenience, interactivity and so on. Therefore cases have grown increasingly concerning infringement and copyright of the original writer’s legal rights, which severely infringe on legitimate rights and commercial benefits. This paper describes the WeChat copyright theory, tries to put forward some suggestions for the development of WeChat.Firstly, this paper briefly introduces the WeChat background in China. Then, this paper analyses the researches at both domestic and foreign on the subject, the purpose and significance of this study, involving WeChat theory of copyright, including characteristics and the identification standards of WeChat, referring the necessity of the legal protection.This paper also describes the WeChat copyright theory, analyzes the issues in WeChat--WeChat copyright-related legislation lag, evidentiary difficulties, the copyright management organization remains to be improved, deficiency in the network service provider. This paper introduces the legislative practice of the related legal system of the common law system and the continental law system, and puts forward some suggestions on the construction of the copyright protection system in China. Based on the analysis and investigation, this paper presents five suggestions: improve WeChat copyright protection related legislation; perfect the evidence system of the copyright infringement of WeChat;strengthen the important role of copyright collective management organization; enhance the awareness of the protection of the rights of network users; clear micro channel network service providers’ legal responsibility. In conclusion, WeChat copyright protection not onlyneeds the perfect laws and regulations, but also needs more self-discipline of the network user and combined with WeChat platform protection. Through the joint efforts of various parties, and jointly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the copyright owner in WeChat, in order to make the network environment for the sustainable development. |
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