Etymologically speaking, copyright means not only the right of reproduction, but also the ownership and control of the work itself and its carrier, sometimes used interchangeably with literary and artistic property rights. English copyright is droit d'auteur in French, Urheberrecht in German and derecho de autor in Spanish. These nouns directly represent the beneficiaries of rights, and translated into Chinese is "the author's rights".
In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of authors' works, coordinate the legal relationship between creators, communicators and the general public arising from the dissemination and use of works, encourage authors to create works, promote the dissemination of works and develop scientific and cultural undertakings, more than 150 countries and regions in the world have established copyright systems.
The original copyright system lasted more than 700 years in China and 200 years in Europe. /kloc-In the second half of the 7th century, the feudal monopoly system centered on the royal family began to shake under the impact of new ideas put forward by British philosophers Milton and Locke, such as "everyone is born free and equal" and "private property is inviolable". After the bourgeois revolution, the parliamentary system representing the interests of new noble and the bourgeoisie replaced the absolute monarchy granted by sovereign countries, and the monopoly power granted by the royal family to printers was abolished.