Abstract:

The provisions of copyright law of P.R.C. has the lack of the protection for due interest of periodical publisher. This lack cannot be compensated through the whole copyright of periodical and acquiring publishing right by contract. In order to acknowledge and protect the due interest of periodical publisher, the law should be revised as follows: the right of exploitation replacing the rule of one-paper-submitted-to-several-journals, time limiting on the statutory digest right, and expanding the scope of application of publishing right.