Copyright. 1. The quality or state of being the product of independent creation and having a minimum degree of creativity. • Originality is a requirement for copyright protection. But this is a lesser standard than that of novelty in patent law: to be original, a work does not have to be novel or unique. Cf. […]
originality n. 独创性 在版权法中，指作品获得版权保护的条件，亦即该作品是由作者独立创作完成的，并且至少具有最低程度的创造性〔creativity〕。美国最高法院在1991年的法伊斯特案〔Feist〕案中认为，「独创性」的宪法性要件中还应包括「创造性」这一独立要件，但这种「创造性的程度是非常低的，甚至只要有一丁点就足矣…」。作为作品保护要件的独创性，不同于专利法中的新颖性〔novelty〕标准。如果两个以上的作品在实体内容上同一，但它们是由各自作者独立创作的，那么就没有理由认为不能存在两个有效的版权。 (→novelty; copyright)
originality. Copyright. 1. The quality or state of being the product of independent creation and having a minimum degree of creativity. • Originality is a requirement for copyright protection. But this is a lesser standard than that of novelty in patent law: to be original, a work does not have to be novel or unique.