Lawyer's Interpretation: Is Tan Tan Transportation copyrighted?

As a talk show, Traffic in Tan Tan includes "the interviewee improvises his illegal behavior" (typical video: Uncle Erxianqiao), which is also an important factor to attract the audience. From the point of view of video shooting and editing, photographers have subjective choice space for their own pictures, and video broadcast by TV stations must be reviewed and edited by TV stations. Therefore, Traffic in Tantan should be an audio-visual work.

According to Article 17 of the Copyright Law, the copyright of film works and TV plays in audio-visual works shall be enjoyed by the producers, but writers such as screenwriters, directors, photographers, lyricists and composers shall enjoy the right of authorship and receive remuneration according to the contracts signed with the producers. The copyright ownership of audio-visual works other than those specified in the preceding paragraph shall be agreed by the parties; Where there is no agreement or the agreement is not clear, it shall be enjoyed by the producer, but the author shall enjoy the right of signature and remuneration.

Traffic in Tan Tan obviously doesn't belong to movies or TV series. It should belong to the "audio-visual works other than those specified in the preceding paragraph" as stipulated by law. According to Tan Qiao's related statement in the video, there was no contract to stipulate the ownership of the program when the program was recorded.

Therefore, the copyright of Tan Tan Traffic should be enjoyed by the producer, namely Chengdu Radio and Television Station.