同人作品著作权侵权风险评析——以虚拟角色商品化权为视角的考量

Copyright Infringement Risk Analysis of Fan Works: Taking the Merchandising Rights of Virtual Characters as a Perspective

同人作品创作的兴起和开发类型的多样化,使得其经济价值提升,也引发了多起纠纷。我国《著作权法》并没有明确规定同人作品的版权归属问题,因此《此间的少年》一案引起了业内对同人作品的著作权相关问题的讨论。同人作品借鉴在先作品中的人物名称或形象进行二次创作,若具备独创性,理应受到著作权法的保护,但其与原作品的著作财产权存在冲突的风险。将虚拟角色商品化权纳入著作权法制度框架来规制同人作品的使用不失为一种可行性考量,商业性使用借用他人知名虚拟角色创作的同人作品应向原著作权人支付相应的报酬。

Due to the increase of the creation and the diversified development types of fan works,the improvement of the economic value of fan works also caused a lot of disputes.Copyright Law of China does not specify the copyright attribution of fan works,so the“There They Were”case has caused discussion of copyright issues.Drawing on the character names or images of the original works to make the second creation,the fan works with originality should be protected by copyright law.But it is in conflict with the property rights of the original works.In order to regulate the use of fan works,it is a feasible consideration that the merchandising rights of virtual characters need the adjustment of copyright law.Fan works with commercial use of others'famous virtual characters should pay the corresponding remuneration to the original copyright owner.