| Currently, creative industry cannot be simply described as fashionable. Since the1990s, high-tech such as electronic publishing, digitizing and network transmission have been broadly used in the cultural area. As a result, many things which was considered as normal have been destroyed irreversibly, which rebuild the rule and meaning of our world. On the minute of its birth, the creative industry has witnessed a geometrical growth. In the trend of economic globalization and legal integration, no matter what kind a country or region is, developed or developing, traditional market or emerging economies, the level of copyright industry development is internationally assumed as the a basic ruler that measures its creativity and core competition. Empirically, opportunities and challenges coexist in the progress of the broad development and innovation of creative industry. The blending and innovation of social, economic and cultural areas has brought creative industry with unprecedented opportunities, with the company of new challenges on intellectual property protection problems, copyright protection issue especially.Undeniably, the development of creative industry relies on the intellectual property protection, especially the copyright system.At the beginning, this article is written in the degree of copyright protection. Then, it figures out the definition, basic classification and scope of creative industry, compares domestic and foreign research literature, and talks about how the copyright system contributes to the creative industry. After that, based on the actual study of creative industry protection in China, this article clarifies the experience in the cases of USA, Japan, and Taiwan. Finally, hoping to make contributions to current copyright protection system, it summarizes the fact and shortage of the creative industry in China, and provides some sound suggestions based on domestic and foreign experience in various dimensions. |