Study Of Copyright Protection For Television Program Formats

TV program formats is from a basic idea,the ideas into script form a text description,and then the specific operation of the production team,until a show in front of an audience of television programs,TV program formats is contained in arts,technology,business of various elements of the sum.Excellent TV program formats become major television station eager to introduce new production with the rapid development of TV industry.However,in the "ratings war",a lot of TV program formats have been copied and cloned in the TV industry,a high ratings television program tended to be imitated by other television stations,the emergence of and the emergence of the same type of TV program for a period of time.The existing national law template on the TV program gave the protection of copyright law still exist some obstacles and plagiarism,Shanzhai phenomena occur frequently directly leads to a seemingly behind the exuberant vitality of the television industry hides a lot of industry bubble.At the same time,from a practical point of view,the TV program formats has become a kind of new industry which has important commercial value and cultural value,and has become an important factor to determine the long-term sustainable development of the television industry.From a legal point of view,the TV program formats in accordance with the copyright law of the object of the protection of theoriginal requirements,and is a tangible form of objective expression.Therefore,on the TV program formats for copyright protection is urgently needed.At present,the increasingly frequent TV formats on the infringement dispute has made industry,legal institutions and the related to its were more and more attention and research,in the meantime some valuable results are achieved.This paper focuses on TV program formats copyright protection,and tort law perspective,through literature research,theoretical analysis and comparative examples of the method,the subject is divided into four parts to study.The first chapter of the connotation TV program formats to define its characteristics,values are discussed and analyzed the feasibility of copyrighted TV program formats.The second chapter analyzes the problem Infringement TV program formats,mainly from the infringement body,tort and distribution of the burden of proof to analyze three aspects.The third chapter studies respectively on China and foreign TV formats infringement cases,analyzes the difficulties the TV program formats infringement dispute case,and summarizes its reference value.The fourth chapter is on the basis of reality TV program formats development in China at present,on TV program formats of legal protection to put forward suggestions and countermeasures.Put forward the implementation of copyright protection based,supplemented by other relevant legal protection of TV formats of the legislative proposals andrely on industry self-regulation,a positive force for non-governmental organizations to promote the healthy development of China's TV program formats industry.