01355nas a2200121 4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001600043245010400059856006500163490000600228520099900234 2005 d1 aCui Guo-bin00aAbandoning the Notion of Collective Authorship: the end of the problem of Folk Literature Copyright uhttp://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-SFAS200505006.htm0 v53 aThe traditional protection of the copyright of folk literature is based on the notion of collective authorship.The upsurge of folk literature protection is pushed by the emotion of cultural nationalism.Influenced by it,the literary scholars painstakingly make differences between folk literature and artist literature,and construct the so called collectivity of folk literature,upon which the legal scholars further invent the collective inditement mechanism and collective authorship notion.Some scholars pave the way for the collective property right on folk literature by borrowing the structuralist literature theory and criticizing the individualist authorship notion.However the collective authorship notion in the folk literature field distorts the developing direction of copyright law.The notion of collective authorship should be abandoned.It is taking the folk literature as ordinary productions that can ultimately resolve the problem of protecting the copyright of folk literature.