Intellectual Property Protection for creation arising from diversifying design creation activitiy

随着消费者对品牌的购买决定、信息技术的发展、老龄化社会等社会的变化，设计创作活动正在多样化。本研究探讨在此情形下，多样化设计创作活动所产生的作品，在设计保护制度中是否受到适当的保护，若不受保护，应如何修正，研究结果如下：（1）设计创作活动中的新类型作品，如展示设计，因商品需求的关系，在现行设计法中未得到充分的保护。为了解决这一问题，必须对产品需求进行限定。(2)在外观设计创作活动的创作保护方面，存在着保护范围不明确的问题。为了解决这一问题，应当从普通消费者的角度来判断保护范围，并在一定程度上对判断过程进行分类。(3)早期保护还是容易保护的问题，应视为著作权保护与外观设计法保护之间的保护选择问题，应在综合考虑著作权保护与外观设计法修正保护的利弊后加以确定。

Design creation activity is nowadays diversifying in response to changes in society, such as consumer's purchasing decision where consumers make a thing of brand, development of information technology, and aging society. This research has studied that in this circumstances, whether creation arising from diversifying design creation activity is properly protected in design protection system, and if it is not, what amendment should be made.Results of this research are :(1) New types of creation of design creation activity, such as display design are not get sufficient protection under existing design act because of goods requirement. In order to resolve this proteblem, goods requirement should be qualified.(2) In regard to protection for creation of design creation activity, there is a problem that the scope of protection is not clear. In order to resolve this problem, scope pf protection should be judging in eyes of normal consumers, and judging process should categorized in certain extent.(3) The problem of early protection or easy protection should be thought as protection selection between copyright protection and protection under design act, and should be determined after considering merits and demerits of copyright protection and protection under amended design act.