Deductive works refer to new works produced by analyzing, adapting, translating, annotating, and collating existing research works, also called derivative works. The copyright of the deductive work belongs to the deducer. The deductive works are based on other works, on which the author’s new ideas are added to recreate. If the interpreter has obtained the permission of the author of the deduced work before performing the deduction, the deductive work is of course protected by copyright; if the interpreter has not obtained the permission of the author of the deduced work before performing the deduction, whether the deductive work can be subject to the “Copyright Law” “The issue of protection is still very controversial.

YU Jie-hong, DAI Yi-long. On Whether Illegal Deductive Works Can Be Protected by Copyright. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 17: 61-66. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2020.021710.

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