著作权的空洞化与一稿多投、一稿多用的解禁

Empty Copyright and Releasing Ban on Manuscript Multisubmission and Manuscript Multipublication

我国《著作权法》第三十二条第一款对一稿多投行为实质上予以了禁止。由于该条规范属于任意性规范,报社、期刊社在决定审稿期限问题上享有独断的权利。在投稿过程中,这一规定导致著作权人处在与报社、期刊社极不平等的缔约谈判劣势之中,存在著作权的空洞化问题。实际上,关于这个问题,国际立法惯例已经为我们提供了一种最佳的解答。

Materially, the first section of the 32nd provision in “Copyright Law”in China prohibits a behavior of a manuscript multisubmission. Because this standard belongs to the haphazard standard, in fact, it makes newspaper office, periodical and journal press enjoy the arbitrary right to dicide deadline of review a draft. In submits a piece of writing for publication in the process, this stipulation causes the copyright owner not to be equal with the newspaper office, the periodical and journal press. Therefore, the question of empty copyright exists. Some scholars advocate that submitting a piece of writing for publication shall be recognized as invitation of offer. But this can not solve the question of “a manuscript multipublication”.For this question, The international legislation convention has already provided one of the best explanation for us.