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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
ୋɘԚ৙ɪൡ ৫ج ੽ Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. v. Columbia Broad.
Sys. 27 ࣩՑ Walt Disney v. Air Pirates 28 ࣩႩމႧ˖ഹЪٙԉЍஷ੬ʔաഹ
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௪ዹतٙ༺ڌ ʩ९ࣛ€contain some unique expression than a purely literary
character™d̙աՑഹЪᛆڭج ᚐ 30fୋɘԚ৙ɪൡ৫ج ᎇܝ׵ Olson ࣩd
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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).
31 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.)