美国版权制度演进及其对我国的启示

The Evolution of American Copyright System and its Enlightenment to China

美国版权制度受国内经济与文化发展需要以及国际趋势的影响,经历了产生、发展、变革三个阶段,从坚持版权保护本土化主义到积极构建版权国际化,原本狭窄的版权客体保护范围不断扩大,版权保护期限也在不断延长,美国版权制度在不断完善以更好地适应信息社会的发展。中国应当借鉴美国的相关经验,以更好地适应新技术时代的发展,加快国际化进程,建设新时代的中国特色版权制度。

Influenced by the need to develop national economics and culture, and the international trend, A-merican copyright system has undergone three phases of emergence, development and reform. From insisting on the localization doctrine in copyright protection, to actively constructing the internationalization of copyright, in this process the sphere of protected copyright objects,which was quite limited at the beginning,has been enlarged continuously ,and the copyright protection term has also been prolonged. American copyright system has been improving all the time so as to better adapt to the development of information society. China should borrow relevant experience from America,so as to better adapt to the development of new technology,quicken the process of internationalization ,and construct the copyright system with Chinese characteristics in the new era.