谷歌数字图书馆著作权合理使用问题研究

Fair Use of Copyright of Google Digital Library

2004年,美国谷歌公司拟构建数字图书馆,引起了法律争议。谷歌数字图书馆争议的关键在于,谷歌将他人图书扫描进谷歌图书馆,并且在线提供这些图书的目录、索引等信息的行为是否构成著作权合理使用。根据案件的判决结果和理由可知,谷歌的行为具备高度的转化性,对社会公共利益贡献巨大,不会损害著作权人的市场销售,适宜被认定为合理使用。因而,我国著作权法有必要在合理使用条款中明确规定图书馆、搜索引擎公司等为构建数字图书馆或数据库,为公众提供搜索服务而全文扫描他人作品的行为构成合理使用,以为中国的图书馆和搜索引擎公司建立数字图书馆扫清障碍。

In 2004, Google Company of the United intends to build digital library, it causes the legal disputes. Google controversy lies in digital li brary, whether the behavior of Google scanned others books into Google Library and provides the online library catalog, index information such as con- stitutes copyright fair use. Based on these cases and reasons, Google＇s actions have high conversion, a huge contribution to the social and public interests and will not damage the market .sales of the copyright owner, it is suitable be considered as fair use. According to Google Library events triggered by the copyright problem, copyright law in our country is necessary to explicitly stipulated in the terms of rational use of the library, search engine compa-- nies that scanning otherg works behavior constitutes fair use to build digital library or database, full text search service for the public, in order that Chi na＇s library and the search engine companies can establish digital library.