Research On The Copyright Of Transmission Of Works In WeChat

With the development of information technology, the Wemedia era is coming.WeChat is the most popular thing nowadays. Forwarding behavior,Push behavior,share to The circle of friends behavior happened every day in WeChat platform. With the vast amounts of information, articles and pictures widely spread in this platform,not only produced important influence in the field of communication, but also bring a certain impact on the field of copyright.Since the Tencent group released WeChat since in January 2011, the current users has already exceeded seven hundred million. Its various forms of function have meet the needs of people to communicate, there are also a number of issues related to the copyright: WeChat group assistant, circle of friends, WeChat public platform, etc..According to different standards, official accounts and private users have different modes of transmission, different propagation behaviors have different propagation properties, so each of them also have different nature of copyright, which can judge the propagation behavior is infringement or under the "fair use".When push the article which have got the author’s permission, official accounts general non-infringement. in within the scope of authorization to spread the use of works is generally not tort, but if the way of push is unreasonable or beyond the scope of the authorization may infringe the original author’s copyright such as personal rights or property rights. Another propagation behavior is reprint works of others, we should be treated differently between unauthorized works and indicate the source of reproduced works.Private users share to separate friends as a "private copying behavior", belongs to“the fair use”; Share to the group should be judged by the group is profit or not, the small and fixed group is non-infringement but the commercial group is infringement;Share to my circle of friends behavior mainly depends on the user’s intention. If the user just for private purposes is non-infringement but if the user to meet the interests of business contacts is infringement.Official accounts and private users must assume direct responsibility for the infringement. If the Tencent group taken measures such as notice, deletion, and timely handling of complaints, even belong to indirect infringement behavior, there is no need to assume the responsibility.