对美国兰萨案的回顾和分析

Review and Analysis on L'anza Decision

兰萨案的判决涉及到美国版权领域的重要问题———平行进口问题 ,版权作品经过版权人的同意或者版权人自己首次投入市场后 ,版权人对于版权作品中包含的权利是否用尽直接关系到商品在市场上能否自由流动 ,知识产权人从自身的利益出发反对版权作品进入特定的市场 ,严格控制此类产品的销售渠道 ,目的是为了维护其版权作品的高价格 ,但是 。

The L'anza Decision is concerning a very important issue in the field of copyright——parallel imports. After copyright works are put into the market with the agreements of copyright owner or by the copyright owner himself, the right contained in the copyright works, whether exhausted or not, will affect the free movement of the works within the market directly. In order to protect the right holder's profits, and keep the high price of copyright works, the right holder limits the copyright work moving in a specific market and restrains such works selling market, however, what the right holder does could infringe the competition law.