体育赛事电视节目的性质和保护模式选择

On the Nature of Sport TV Programs and the Choice of Protection Mode Thereof

近年来,有关体育赛事电视节目的转播引起的各种争议越来越多,对"体育赛事"和"体育赛事电视节目"意义的不同理解,引发了对两者性质的讨论。体育赛事的直播或转播行为,引发了著作权意义上网络传播权的一些争议,且在相同问题上法院的判决结果也多有不同。本文通过分析体育赛事和体育赛事电视节目的本质,厘清两者的概念和关系,明确赛事节目的作品性质和其应当受到著作权法保护的法律地位,为实践提供指引。

Disputes over transmission of sport TV programs grow rampant in recent years.Divergent understanding of the two concepts,“sport events”and“sport TV programs”,leads to intense discussion of their nature.The live broadcast or rebroadcast of sport TV programs also cause disputes over the right of dissemination via information networks in the copyright meaning,further,courts’judgement over similar issues in this regard vary.This paper,by analyzing the nature of sport events and sport TV programs,clarifies the two concepts and their relationships,defines the nature of sport TV programs and its legal status under the protection of Copyright Law,in the hope to provide some guidance for legal practices.