数字环境中著作权合理使用制度的变化与发展

The Change and Development of Fair Use System of Copyright in Digital Environment

著作权合理使用制度是各国著作权法中通行的著作权限制制度,它允许作品的传播者与使用者在某些法律规定的条件下可以不经过著作权人许可、不向其支付报酬而无偿使用受著作权法保护的作品.数字环境使得传统环境下属于合理使用的行为可能不再合理.文章主要讨论数字网络环境对合理使用制度所带来的改变,以及合理使用制度在未来的发展趋势.

The fair use system is the main institution of regulations on restraining the use of copyright in the copyright law of various countries all over the world. This system allows some people to propagate and use for free the works which are protected by the copyright law on condition that these actions conform to the fair use in copyright law. Digital environment makes the traditional way of fair use, perhaps, no longer reasonable. This paper focuses on the analysis of the change and growing tendency of fair use system in the digital network environment.