WAP搜索服务适用避风港规则的困境与完善

Dilemma and improvements in the application of safeharbor rules for WAP search service

WAP搜索服务作为搜索引擎转码服务,在技术上仅提供链接服务和格式转换服务,并不存在存储相关作品并提供给用户的功能,这使得WAP搜索服务的属性认定和系统缓存的避风港规则的适用存在不确定性。通过研究《信息网络传播权保护条例》第二十一条即系统缓存的避风港规则的适用要件,结合典型判例“一搜案”,探讨WAP搜索服务法律属性,明确侵权认定适用标准,以及其适用系统缓存的避风港规则的困境,并提出对“提高网络传输效率”作扩大解释、善用技术中立原则以及发挥典型案例引领作用等完善路径,以期为司法实践中新兴技术相关类案提供审判思路。

WAP search service,as a search engine trans-coding service,technically only provides linking service and format conversion service,and does not have the function of storing relevant works and providing them to users.This leaves uncertainty about the attribution of WAP search service and the application of the systematic cache safe harbor rules.Based on the application requirements of article 21 of Regulations on the Protection of the Right of Communication through Information Network,namely the systematic cache safe harbor rules,this paper,combining with the typical case"One Search Case",discusses the legal attributes of WAP search service,clarifies the applicable standards for infringement determination,and the dilemma of applying the systematic cache safe harbor rules,and puts forward better paths such as expanding the interpretation of"improving network transmission efficiency",making good use of the principle of technology neutrality,and giving play to the leading role of typical cases,so as to provide trial ideas for emerging technology-related cases in judicial practice.