On the Technologically Protective Measures of Copyright
Geng Zhang · Xiandai faxue · 2004
Technologically protective measures make up for disadvantages in protecting copyrights with legal methods; however, it encourages the more advanced deciphered technology and its devices. Thus, the copyright holder's interests of copyrights and the neighboring rights of them would be seriously threatened. WIPO and the leading countries reinforce the legislation on anti-circumvention of the technologically protective measures. This article observes the definition of technologically protective measures in various countries with respect to subjects, relevancy, effectiveness and justice of the purpose, and conducts a comparative study on the form of circumvention of infringement and defense for infringement. This paper also analyzes the legislative defect in the relevant provisions of anti-circumvention of technologically protective measures in our Copyright Law and puts forward corresponding ways to amend it.