文学角色著作权法保护探析

An Analysis on the Protection of Literary Characters’Copyright Law

文学角色凝结了作者的劳动和创造性表达,但当前我国《著作权法》并未对其做出明确保护规定,这导致了司法实践中或对文学角色不予保护,或寻求其他法律如商标法、反不正当竞争法来加以保护。从《著作权法》的立法目的、利益平衡理论、文学角色本身承载的商业价值分析,文学角色极具保护的必要性;从立法空间和司法实践分析,对文学角色的保护也具有可行性。因此,建议以司法解释的方式对《著作权法》相关兜底性条款进行扩大解释,赋予达到独创性和充分描述标准的文学角色版权保护。

Literary characters condense the author’s labor and creative expression,but the copyright law of our country currently does not make clear protection provisions for it.It has led to either not protecting literary roles in judicial practice,or seeking other laws such as Trademark law and Anti-Unfair Competition Law.From the analysis of the legislative purpose of copyright law,the theory of interest balance and the commercial value of literary characters,it is necessary to protect the character of literature;from the perspective of legislative space and judicial practice,it is feasible to protect literary characters.Therefore,it is suggested that the judicial interpretation should be used to expand the interpretation of the relevant provisions of the copyright law,so as to give copyright protection to literary characters that meets the standards of originality and sufficiently expressed.