短视频App平台间接侵权责任认定探究

The Indirect Tort Liability of Short Video App Platforms

短视频业态飞速发展的同时,也产生了诸多法律问题,特别是版权侵权问题。短视频App平台通过广告、直播、电商等途径已经获得超额利润,版权保护的义务也应当相应加重。间接侵权认定中,"避风港"原则与短视频App平台的技术水平、经济地位已经不相适应,需要设定短视频App平台一定程度上对短视频作品进行审查的合理注意义务,怠于行使合理注意义务,放任侵权行为的发生,就具有主观过错,应当承担间接侵权责任;举证责任分配中,短视频App平台需要对其履行了合理注意义务进行举证,其从技术手段和审查措施上满足了履行合理注意义务的条件;关于注意的程度,不能仅仅根据作品的知名度判断,还需要结合作品类型,借助技术手段有效识别作品。

Legal problems,especially copyright infringement,arise with the rapid development of short video Apps.With their excessive profits through advertisement,live broadcast and e-commerce,short video Apps should also shoulder corresponding duties of copyright protection.In the determination of tort liability,the“safe haven”principle is no longer compatible with the technical level and economic status of short video Apps,which requires short video Apps to perform a certain extent of attention review.If a reviewing staff in these platforms fails to carry out attention review and lets the tort go unnoticed,it commits a subjective fault and should undertake the indirect tort responsibility.In the corresponding distribution of the proof burden,short video Apps need to prove that it has fulfilled the attention duty examination,in terms of technical means and examination measures.The attention degree is technologically judged on the basis of both the popularity and type of works.