信息聚合视角下搜索引擎的法律规制——以“自愿法定许可”制度的新应用为路径

Legal Regulation of Search Engines from the Perspective of Information Aggregation——Taking the New Application of“Voluntary Statutory Licensing”System as the Path

信息聚合服务以“搜索引擎+提供‘深层链接’”为基础,而搜索服务以对网页文件海量复制为前提,以提供“深层链接”为目的的抓取,不宜再被视为合理使用。同时,过去通行的判定,即提供快照和缩略图可构成合理使用的开放性认定标准也难以起到准确的预测作用。要解决内容提供者与信息聚合服务者间利益失衡,可着眼于对搜索引擎的法律规制,对此我国特有的“自愿法定许可”制度可成为解决相应问题的新思路。

Information aggregation services are based on“search engine+provision of‘deep links’”,while search services take the massive replication of web files as the basis.Therefore,the crawling behavior that aims to provide“deep links”should no longer be regarded as fair use.In addition,the common-ly-used open identification standards have failed to accurately predict whether the provision of snapshots and thumbnails is a kind of fair use.Hence,making legal regulations for search engines is considered to be a potential solution to the imbal-ance of interests between content providers and information aggregation service providers.The“voluntary statutory licensing”system peculiar to China may pro-vide new insights for the solving of the problem.