Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Development and Utilization of the Dissertation Pr.docVIP

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Development and Utilization of the Dissertation Pr 　　Received 5 August 2012; accepted 24 October 2012 　　Abstract 　　This paper explicitly identifies the copyright subject of the dissertation, and focuses on intellectual property rights issues of dissertation; and the author as its copyright owner, in the commercial development and feasible solutions. 　　Key words: Dissertation; Subject of right; University; Paper development agency; Commercial development; Authorization; Royalty 　　ZHU Yujing (2012). Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Development and Utilization of the Dissertation Process. Cross-Cultural Communication, 8(5), -0. Available from: /index.php/ccc/article/view/j.ccc.1923670020120805.2444 DOI: /10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020120805.2444. 　　Dissertations?are?research?papers,?written?by?postgraduates,?who?worked?under?the?guidance?of?supervisors,?referred?to?a?large?number?of?documents,?and?repeated?experiments,?in?order?to?obtain?a?doctor’s?or?master’s?degree. So, under normal circumstances, dissertations represent the direction of the latest academic development of the discipline, with high academic and reference value. With the advancement of science and technology, dissertations have not only the form of a printed version, but also the electronic version, in particular, in the form of network version. And the electronic version increasingly demonstrates its strong advantage in the way of convenient, fast, ease of custody, ease of use, ease of circulation. Since ease of downloading is also one of its characteristics, it had caused widespread concern of the copyright protection for dissertations in society when 482 masters and doctors sued Beijing Wanfang Company for copyright infringement in 2008. 　　According to the statistics from , at least more than 1100 masters and doctors have filed the similar lawsuits in Beijing, Shanghai and other places of the country. The fundamental reason of m