With the growing popularity of smart phones and tablet PCs, digitalpublishing and mobile reading are developing quite fast, however, the copyrightdisputes are also intensified regarding with mobile reading, the protection ofintellectual property has become the bottleneck of the digital publishing industry,this situation is quite similar with the intellectual property protection history theEuropean and American database faced several years ago.There are7parts in this paper, the first part gives an introduction to theconcepts of digital publishing and mobile reading, the history of copyrightprotection, and also a brief review of relevant research at home and abroad. Thesecond part shows the possible influence of intellectual property protection ondigital publishing and mobile reading by a review into the influences theintellectual property protection have on the databases. The third and fourth partmakes a thorough analysis into the different sectors in the mobile readingindustry,the fifth part gives a introduction to the basic issues of copyrightinfringement and the new features of copyright infringement under this digitalpublishing era and also analyzes the problems the protection of intellectualproperty are facing with now. The6th part gives corresponding suggestions tothese problems, hoping to help the mobile reading industry develop better with abetter protection system, and the last part makes a conclusion to this paper. |