数字化作品与首次销售原则--以《著作权法》修改为背景

Digital Works and First Sale Doctrine:Copyright Law Modification as Background

首次销售原则对数字化作品的适用,应依照数字化作品的不同类型以及移转、传播的不同方式来具体判断。通过网络传输的数字化作品原则上不应适用首次销售原则。在数字化作品复制件的有形占有发生移转,但伴有许可协议的情形,作品复制件的所有权是否移转,建议借鉴美国沃纳诉欧特克案确立的三步检测法来判断,只有作品复制件的所有权发生移转,才能适用首次销售原则。我国著作权法在修订之时,应将首次销售原则予以明确规定,并针对数字化作品细化适用规则。

The application of first sale doctrine to digital works should be judged according to their different types and various transfer ways. Digital works that are transmitted through internet shound not be applied to first sale doctrine in principle. Where tangibel possession of a copy of a digital work is transferred with a license, the issue of whether the ownership of the copy of the work has been transferred may be judged according to ＂three- part test＂, which is established in the American case of＂Vernor vs. Autodesk＂, and only when the ownership of the copy of the work is tranferred, can the first sale doctrine be applied. As China＇s Copy Right Law is going to be modifed, it is suggest that the first sale doctrine should be established explicitly with specified rules for digital works.