关于狭义网络虚拟财产的法律属性研究

Study on the legal attribute of network virtual property in narrow sense

随着经济的发展,网络虚拟财产应运而生并得到越来越多的关注。《中华人民共和国民法总则》第127条对网络虚拟财产做出了规定,《中华人民共和国民法典》第127条则对该规定进行保留,正式将网络虚拟财产确定为应当受到法律保护的对象。但是该条仅对网络虚拟财产的保护做出了宣示性规定,对权利性质、权利归属和侵犯该权利之后的处罚等内容却未曾提及。故而目前在网络虚拟财产属性的界定上产生了争论,每个学说的观点见解都有其独到与侧重之处。但就狭义上的网络虚拟财产而言,剖析其本质后可以发现债权说更易于和主流观点相协调,更能适应原有的民法体系,有着更低的解释成本,故而应当采纳债权说。

With the development of economy,network virtual property arises at the historic moment and gets more and more attention.From the provisions of Article 127 of the General Provisions of the Civil Law of the People’s Republic of China to the reservation of the provisions of Article 127 of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China,the network virtual property is formally defined as the object that should be protected by law.However,this article only makes declarative provisions on the protection of network virtual property,but does not mention the nature of the right,the ownership of the right and the punishment after infringing the right.Therefore,at present,there is a debate on the definition of the attribute of network virtual property,and the definition of the attribute of network virtual property is not unified.At present,the mainstream viewpoints include:the theory of real right,the theory of creditor’s right,the theory of intellectual property right and the theory of new right.Opinions of each theory has its unique and focus on the way,but in terms of narrow sense of network virtual property,and analyzes its essence.There is no doubt that theory of creditor’s rights is easier to coordinate with the mainstream views,can adapt to the original civil law system,has a lower cost of interpretation.Therefore,the theory of creditor’s rights should be adopted.