With the popularity and rapid development of Internet around the world, communication and download of network music works have become a new consumption hot spot. Development of digital network technology has brought users with convenience, which changes the employment ways of music works fundamentally. From another perspective, it damages the interest of copyright owners of music works including authors, performers and record companies. This new communicative way as well as the infringement has become a whole new subject for legal protection of music works' copyright. In the paper, based on legal law of copyright, it analyzes the legal positions and responsibility of infringement of network service provider as well as network users combined with representative judicial cases. It proposes some suggestions for the adjustment of legal system and authorization mechanism of music copyright with a comparative analysis on the legislative situations of music copyright protection home and abroad.
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