On analyzing some problems existing in rental rights of Chinese Copyright Law, the author suggests we should add performers and broadcasting television organizations as the subject of rental rights, add the originals and copies of a fixed performance and sound recording, picture recording and broadcasting television organization programmes as the object, lay down the rules concerning the exception system of rental in good faith, resonable use system and statutory licence system so as to set limitations to rental rights.
So the judgment criterion of fair use in copyright may be referred to the mode of judgment criterion in America,that is,the purpose and nature of use,nature of the used works,quality and importance of using works,and the influences on works',potential market or value.
Through the carefully comparative study of our country' s original and revised copyright law, in combination with the world' s spirit on the copyright pact, and in the light of the practice of the comyright law and the juristic theory, this paper analiyzes and introduces in detail the the bill of amendment of the copyright law published on 27th October 2001.
Based on a correct understanding of Article 7 of the Chinese Copyright Act,the paper introduces the intension and extension of the concept“Patent Document”in detail and demonstrates that the patent documents do not involve copyright
The author of the paper discusses some issues in the revision of the “Copyright Law” in light of (a) renaming,(b) establishing the registration of the works,(c)defining the periods of the validity,(d)the ownership of the copyright and (e)permitting the licensing system.
Based on analysing an infringement case about homepage' design, this paper expounds the forms and contents of homepage' design and the practical meanings for its intellectual property protection, and discusses the legal protective patterns for homepage' design. It also emphasizes the importance of Copyright Law for protecting the homepage' design, and puts forward some constructive proposals for amending Copyright Law in the face of network environment.