网络版权的公共领域研究--以知识共享协议为例

Public Domain of Digital Copyright: Taking the Creative Commons License as a Case Study

本文主要以共享创意或知识共享(CC)为研究对象,探讨其与版权的关系。文章首先简要回顾了CC运动的历史及其许可条款的基本内容,然后分析其与版权法、中介商的关系,最终得出的结论是CC依赖于版权制度,其目的是规避传统的版权内容市场来创造可供选择的内容来源,但其自我强加的体系结构人为地缩小了对其他CC授权作品可用的创造性资源,并且当许可条款被打破时,它也不能克服版权侵权所带来的复杂性。尽管如此,CC仍有其存在的价值,它促进了新中介机构的发展,同时其作为版权法的备选项对创作者也具有很大的吸引力。

This paper focuses on the meaning of Creative Commons(CC)and explores its relationship with copyright. Before analyzing its relationship with copyright law and intermediary,it first briefly reviews the history of the CC movement and the basic content of its licensing clauses,and finally it concludes that CC relies on copyright regime to circumvent the traditional copyright content market so as to create alternative sources of content,but its self-imposed system artificially reduces the creative resources available to other CC licensed works,and it cannot overcome the complexities of copyright infringement when its licensing terms being breached.Nevertheless,CC still has its value,which can promote the development of new digital intermediaries,and as an alternative of copyright law,has a great appeal to creators.