Abstract:

Through the survey on the nature of intangible cultural heritage and the combination with the protection activities of the intangible cultural heritage in Guangdong, this paper made an analysis of current problems about China’s intellectual property rights protection of the intangible cultural heritage Through the in-depth study on some specific intellectual property rights systems and theories related to the intangible cultural heritage and learning from overseas experience, some suggestions are made as follows: establishing a unified protection organization, getting familiar with family property, determining the key protection of heritage, strengthening the construction of protection organizations and successors, setting up protection mechanism in grassroots level and classification guidance measures in order to strengthen the legal protection of intangible cultural heritage As to the protection mode, this paper suggests that a comprehensive protection system of intellectual property rights should be used, and regulations or policies on China’s intellectual property rights protection of intangible cultural heritage should be timely put forward

Key words: intangible cultural heritage, intellectual property rights, protection, research