Patent protection for folk paper-cutting in Yu County
According to Article 2 of the Convention on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the fifth category is traditional handicrafts, which mainly refers to traditional arts and crafts handicrafts with distinctive national styles and regional characteristics passed down from generation to generation. Traditional production and production techniques, etc. The patent protection model is most suitable for new inventions based on intangible cultural heritage.
Since Yuxian paper-cutting has developed to this day, people who inherit paper-cutting have set up their own paper-cutting factories. Also in the Yuxian paper-cutting market, how to reflect the characteristics of their own products requires paper-cutting inheritors to maintain On the basis of Yuxian paper-cutting style, we constantly reform and innovate production techniques and develop new types of works. Therefore, in the process of developing Yuxian paper-cut works, especially the innovation of some traditional production techniques and the personalized design of themes and patterns, etc., it is the artistic quality of the paper-cut inheritors. While the new works create artistic value, they also provide opportunities for paper-cut artists. Brings social reputation. During the field research, the author interviewed artist Zhou Guang and learned that Lu Xue, president of the Chinese Art Paper-cutting Association (Hong Kong), in 2000 asked the Zhou Guang brothers and sisters to combine six or seven photos she brought to form a pattern and design and make it into a folk sculpture. The paper-cut works were published in his own name in an album compiled by the China Art Paper-cut Association (Hong Kong), and the names of the Yu County paper-cut artists Zhou Guang and his sister were never mentioned.
It can be seen that since the inheritors of paper-cutting in Yu County are all local farmers, most of them have low cultural level and weak legal awareness, which gives some people an opportunity. They came here in admiration and asked Yu County paper-cut inheritors to design and make paper-cut works according to their own requirements, and signed their names on the works. Some even directly took the original works of the inheritors and signed their own names. Gain social reputation and economic benefits. Therefore, inheritors of paper-cutting must improve their awareness of rights protection and protect their innovative production techniques, designs, products, etc. with patent rights, so as to prevent others from misappropriating, plagiarism and other illegal activities.
