著作侵权损害的酌情赔偿

Appropriate compensation of copyright infringement

酌情赔偿是著作侵权损害赔偿纠纷中最为常用的一种赔偿额确定依据。各国立法对此有不同的立法模式。在选择性模式、后位性模式和单一性模式立法中,酌情赔偿适用的先后顺次有所不同。我国司法实务界对酌情赔偿的适用,呈现出机械性适用、灵活性适用和突破性适用三种情形。为规范酌情赔偿的适用,应当将作品类型、侵权行为性质、侵权行为后果、合理使用费、侵权地经济发展状况、作品流行程度、侵权人经营场所的位置、侵权人经营规模、作品发行范围、作者的知名度、国家相关稿酬规定、作品的商业价值、为制止侵权行为而支付的合理费用等确定为酌情赔偿时必须考虑的因素。

Appropriate compensation is the commonest evaluation basis of the amount of damages in the compensation to the copyright infringement. Different countries have different legislation modes about appropriate compensation. Among the legislation of selective mode, last - position mode and unicity mode, appropriate compensation has different order in application. As for the application of appropriate compensation, China comes out three kinds of situation which are mechanical application, flexible application and breakthrough applica- tion. In order to standardize the application of appropriate compensation, the following factors of work type, in- fringement property, infringement consequence, rational fee, economic development of local area, popularity of the work, managing location of infringer, managing scale of infringer, issuance area of work, author＇ s popularity, relating regulation of remuneration in the country, work＇ s commercial value, rational payment for preventing infringement should be necessarily taken into consideration when dealing with appropriate compensation issues.