Research On The Copyright Infringement Of Film And Television Scripts

Copyright law is one more special field of intellectual property law, film and television copyright is the copyright law in a special provision, which involves not only the ownership of copyright in the film and television work also involves copyright issues and the script can be used alone or the like. Unlike copyright, patent and trademark, which both traditional theoretical basis of law as a support, but also has strong applicability and operational practices, which to some extent dependent on the subjective value judgments. Films is a multi-class contact with a wide range of audiences, high degree of concern of the works, which determines the nature of the special nature of the film and television works to protect, where film and television scripts are built film works fortress walls, but in recent years about plagiarism screenplay, adapted screenplay, screenplay writer authorship infringement cases frequently described the emphasis on film and television scripts insufficient copyright protection, the copyright law to constitute infringement of copyright script did not make detailed provisions. Practice for the original television script finds that piracy and illegal copying, adaptation illegal distinction between script constitute a substantial similar standard, whether the distinction between thought and expression, and creativity should be protected by copyright laws and other issues are not clear enough, these problems to solve television script infringement caused great obstacles Based on infringement cases in the judicial practice encountered in the analysis, hoping to enrich the television script copyright protection laws and regulations, improve the management to provide useful suggestions to improve all walks of life and television script writers interests of copyright protection seriously.