Intellectual Property Protection for creation arising from diversifying design creation activitiy

当今的设计创作活动正随着社会的变化而多样化，如消费者以品牌为中心的购买决策、信息技术的发展和老龄化社会。本研究探讨在这种情况下，因设计创作活动多样化而产生的创作是否在外观设计保护制度中得到适当的保护，如果不是，应做出哪些修改。研究的结果是：(1)展示设计等新型设计创作活动由于商品需求的原因，在现有的设计法下得不到足够的保护。对于外观设计创作活动的保护，存在保护范围不明确的问题。为解决这一问题，应从普通消费者的角度对保护范围进行判断，并对判断过程进行一定程度的归类。(3)早期保护或简易保护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修改法保护的利弊后确定。

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.