作为为他作品的委托作品:目的价值与权利分配——从《大头儿子和小头爸爸》系列案件说起

Commissioned Work as Work Made for Other:Its Expected Values and Distribution of Rights——Based on the Cases about the Cartoon “Big-Head Son and Little-Head Father”

委托作品属于"为他作品",即为他人创作的作品,其权利归属的立法大致可区分为两种倾向:创作者模式和使用者模式。我国《著作权法》第17条的现有规定遵循了创作者原则,并体现了合同自由原则,但委托人的行为动机与利益期待未能得到充分考虑。参照已有的司法解释,该条款应做必要修改,以更多地考虑到委托方的预期利益,从而实现委托人与创作者之间全面的利益平衡。

Commissioned work falls within ‘work made for other’, the legal rules of its copyrights ascription could be roughly divided into two approaches： the creator（commissioned party） doctrine and the user（commissioning party） doctrine. Art.17 of China Copyright Act follows the creator（commissioned party） doctrine, and embodies the freedom of contract, meanwhile the intention and expected interests of the commissioning party may not be fully considered. Referring to the existing the judicial interpretation（[2002]31）, the necessary modification should be made with Art.17, thinking more about the expected interests of commissioning party, to achieve a complete balance between the interests of the commissioning party and the commissioned.