The Survey and Discussion about Inheritors'Intellectual Property's Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ethnic Minority:Take Guizhou as an Example

Because the private right's subject is lack in the Intangible cultural heritage protection,the inheritors have opportunity of owning the intellectual property as the representative of intangible cultural heritage.Basis on the survey to 42 Inheritance persons in Guizhou,the paper recommends the consciousness,actuality of the inheritors'intellectual property's protection.At the same time,the paper discoveres that the protection have some characteristic:using direct intellectual protection model;the diversification of intellectual property's subject;protected object basically is the traditional knowledge derived benefit and rarely involves the Intangible cultural heritage itself.Accordingly,inheritors'intellectual property's protection of intangible cultural heritage may result in the monopoly or hinder the inheritance.