委托创作合同下委托人之著作人身权探析——兼论作品创作者与著作人身权之分离

A Study of Copyright-related Personal Rights of the Principal in Contract by Commission——Discussion on Separation of Originator and Copyright-related Personal Rights

实践中,委托创作合同的委托人主张享有包括署名权在内的著作人身权的诉求通常无法得到支持。著作人身权与作者不可分离的传统理论导致诸多委托作品的著作财产权与人身权归属不同主体,无论从权利归属还是作品保护上均存在问题。我国《著作权法》第十七条的规定未明确排除著作人身权不可由委托人根据合同约定享有,且存在法人或其他组织作品及特殊职务作品在不涉及权利移转情况下由委托人原始取得著作人身权的推理,但对此适用应作出限制。

In practice,the claim of the principal in a contract by commission for copyright-related personal rights including the right of authorship can’t get support.The traditional theory that copyright-related personal rights can’t be separated from the author has caused the fact that property rights and personal rights of many commissioned works belong to different subjects,which is not sensible in the ownership of rights as well as in the protection of works.The article 17 in“Copyright Law”doesn’t explicitly exclude that the principal cannot be entitled to the copyright-related personal rights under the contract.In addition,it is possible that the works of legal persons or other organizations and the works of special duties can be obtained by the principal originally without the transfer of rights,although the application of this reasoning should be restricted in a certain way.