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106.11 智慧財產權月刊 VOL.227
本月專題
美國法院對於角色著作權保護之判斷標準―
研析美國第九巡迴上訴法院
DC Comics v. Towle
一案
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(二)圖像、影像角色(美術著作、視聽著作中的角色)比語文著作
中的角色較易受到著作權法保護
ୋɘԚɪൡ
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Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. v. Columbia Broad.
Sys.
27
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Walt Disney v. Air Pirates
28
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literary
¨
characters ordinarily are not copyrightable
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contain some unique expression than a purely literary
character
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30
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31
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27
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. v. Columbia Broad. Sys., Inc., 216 F.2d 945 (9th Cir.1954) (we
distinguished a prior decision suggesting that literary “characters ordinarily are not copyrightable).
28
Walt Disney Productions v. Air Pirates, 581 F.2d 751, 755 (9th Cir. 1978) (on the grounds that a comic
book character “has physical as well as conceptual qualities” and “is more likely to contain some
unique elements of expression” than a purely literary character).
29
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. v. Columbia Broad. Sys.,216 F.2d 945 (9th Cir.1954).
30
Seeid.
Walt; Detective Comics, Inc. v. Bruns Publications Inc., 111 F.2d 432 (2d Cir. 1940); Fleischer
Studios v.Freundlich, 73 F.2d 276 (2d Cir. 1934); King Features Syndicate v. Fleischer, 299 F. 533 (2d
Cir. 1924).
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Warner Bros., Inc. v. American Broadcasting Cos., Inc., 720 F.2d 231, 240-245 (2d Cir. 1983) ([M]any
literary characters may embody little more than an unprotected idea [while] a comic book character,
which has physical as well as conceptual qualities, is more likely to contain some unique elements of
expression.)