Research On The Copyright Protection Of Audio Books

The widespread use of digital network technology and smart mobile facilities changes the way of the creation and dissemination of various works.The incidental characteristics of audio books enable the listeners to obtain the information while do exeicise,housework or on the way to and from work.In the era when eyes are becoming increasingly exhausted,our ears can also help us get to know more cultural information,which serve as a diverse choice for the way of our reading.Accompanied by the coming of “ear economy”,the grafts of smart phone,smart autobile,smart household,and virtual reality on mobile TV stations offer a terrific opportunity for the rapid development of audio books.It can be said that 2014 should be the year when the capital of mobile audio market got its outbreak.Although the popularity of mobile smart facilities,wifi as well as 4G network has brought great convenience to the development of audio reading materails,however,as a coin has two sides,the mobile information network is poised to be infringed due to its characteristics of convenient approach to information,rapid dissemination,wide range and large group of audience.What's worse,the harm it imposes is also be amplified,and the cases of copyright infringement are becoming more and more,which make the audio books market faced with the trouble of copyright protection.audio books involve multiple subjects such as the author,the performer,producers of phonograms,the sub-authorizer,the collective management organisation,the publishing house,the copyright agency,the person who provides the service of network technology,and the person who provides the service of network content.In the meanwhile,they involve multiple rights such as right of performance,right of adaptation,right of translation,right of duplication,right of publishing,right of broadcasting,right of information on network dissemination,and so on.In addition,audio books may involve multiple authorities,including the permission of copyrighter,deductive author,musical works,the performers,and producers of phonograms,which is in that the diversification of the right owner and the variety of rights,especially the complicated legal relationship on authority at all levels,make the audio books become the worst-hit area about copyright infringement.Through the discussion of the concept and legal nature of audio books as well as the clarification of the legal relationship and rights and obligations of each subject in audio books industrial chain,the thesis aims to make an analysis of the typical copyright infringement cases that had taken place.In the background of amending the Copyright Law,the author gives some references for the measures taken at home and abroad to protect the copyright of audio books so as to put forward the corresponding suggestions to contribute to their creation and dissemination,and thereby being good to the legal reference as well as the prosperity,standardization and scientific development of audio books industry.