体育赛事直播节目的著作权保护

Copyright Protection of Live Sports Event Programs

近年来随着互联网技术的发展,网络直播作为一种新型的视频传播方式也随之兴起,但在发展的同时也产生诸多乱象,例如网络转播侵权、盗播等现象频发。在我国,由于体育赛事的独创性尚未得到学界和实务界的一致承认,其本身并不构成《著作权法》意义上的作品。因此通过体育赛事直播节目的传播而产生的权益一般认为类似于广播组织者的邻接权。本文认为在我国现有法律框架下对体育赛事直播节目的保护,一方面可以通过完善广播组织者权进行保护,另一方面辅之以《反不正当竞争法》进行兜底保护。而随着《著作权法》修改草案中对于“作品”范围的扩大,在草案通过后可以期待被认定为作品进行保护。

In recent years, with the developmentof Internet, network broadcast, as a new way of video transmission, hasemerged. However, there are also a lot of problems, such as network broadcastpiracy, stolen broadcast and so on. In China, because the originality of sportsevent programs has not been recognized neither by academic community norjudicial practice, it does not conform to the definition of work in CopyrightLaw. Therefore, the rights generated by the transmission of live sports eventprograms are generally considered to be similar to the neighboring rights ofbroadcast organizers. This paper argues that under the current legal frameworkof China, on the one hand, live sports event programs can be protected byperfecting the rights of broadcast organizers, on the other hand, it can besupplemented by the Anti-Unfair Competition Law for the protection. With theexpansion of the scope of work in the revised draft of the Copyright Law, itcan be expected to be recognized as work for protection after the draft is passed.