Issues Of Copyright In Multi-participant Works

The development and popularization of the internet has broadened the ways of accessing to works and accumulated a large number of work materials for Internet users.Creators can edit their works freely and create their works with other volunteers by using digital technology..Multi-participant works changes the traditional work creation mode,firstly the creator uploads his work to internet,then volunteers recreate it to become the cooperative works.A work may contain the intellectual labor of thousands of authors.The rise of network assisting in creating works,promoting the formation and fast prosperity of multi-participant works.It's not the unique cultural phenomenon in our country for the works for multi-participant works,it exists in the places with developed network.The particularity of the creative subject and the creative model have drawn attention to the issue of copyright in multiplayer works.These issues of copyright in multi-participant works is in essence the ownership of copyright and the exercise of rights brought about by many creators assisting in the creation of works.Multi-participant works are spontaneous creations by many creators,and the creators have all given up their direct interests,resulting in disagreement on the ownership of copyright in the works.At present,there are three modes of copyright ownership of works,meaning copyright belongs to creators,organizers,and public models,but they tend to ownership the copyright of works to creators who have paid intellectual labor.From the perspective of the creator enjoying copyright rights,the multiplayer-participative works are composed of creative expressions of many subjects and are the result of intellectual labor created by many creators..There are so many subjects of rights,resulting in a issue that who can represent the exercise of their copyright rights.So put forward to solutions regarding to these questions.Restricted the author's copyright for the dissemination and re-creation of multi-participant works.For their internal creative members,established a sharing mechanism that allow more volunteers to join the ranks of creation through sharing copyright rights with other creators;for the follow-up use of the work,expanding the scope of application of legal licenses,to replace the ex-ante permit mechanism with the ex-post compensation mechanism,that derogate from the interests of copyright holder;for the exercise of rights,providing by electronic authorization means the introduction of format clauses to authorize network service providers in order to make the Copyright holder,the network service provider,the end user establishing their legal relations through the contract,and promote the standardization of multiplayer participation.Analysis the ownership of the copyright and the exercise of rights issues based on the particularity of the creative subject and the creative mode of multi-participant works At the same time,learn from the developed countries' experience in legislation and regulation,put forward suggestions for the copyright issue of multi-participant works.