对游戏动态画面的录制能否形成录像制品的法律分析 兼评爱拍诉酷6案

Legal analysis on whether the recording of a electronic game's motion picture can be a video product

电子游戏是一种特殊的作品,其不仅可以作为软件作品受到著作权法的保护,同时还可以根据展现形式享有艺术类作品的著作权。对于大多数电子游戏而言,玩家运行程序所形成的有独创性的动态画面可以构成作品。用户利用软件录制电子游戏动态画面的行为是对作品的复制,其形成的成果不能构成录像制品。

Electronic games are a special kind of work, which can not only protected by the copyright law as software, but also can enjoy copyright depends of their art forms. For most electronic games, the motion pictures which displayed by players running the programs may be constructed works. Players use the software to record the motion picture of the video game are copying the work, the outcome of which can not constitute the video product.