Legal analysis: There are two kinds of situations that infringe the right of authorship of others: one is to sign others on the works that the author has finished, or to sign others on the works that are not the author. The first case, without the author's permission, constitutes an infringement of the right of signature. Because the relationship between the author and the work is made public without others' permission, it should affect the author's signature decision-making power.

Of course, the unauthorized use of the author's name in the work also violates the author's name right. In this case, it is a phenomenon of overlapping laws and regulations. According to the principle that special law is superior to common law, it can be regarded as an infringement of the author's right of signature. For the second case, according to the above analysis, it can be affirmed that the name right of others has been infringed, which is like using the registered trademark of others on your own goods and infringing the trademark right of others (the name right is also the right to mark). But does it violate the right of signature? As far as works of art are concerned, China's Copyright Law regards "making and selling works of art signed by others" as infringement, so some people think that works of art have at least included the above two situations, both of which are infringement of others' right of signature.

It is believed that unauthorized signature on non-works can only infringe on others' name rights, but not on others' signature rights. Because the right of signature is the right to determine the identity of public works and authors, there is no signature without works, so there is no problem of infringing on the right of signature. As far as our country is concerned, it is obviously not enough to protect the rights of authors, especially famous writers, only by identifying the infringement of name rights, because sometimes impersonation will not only damage the personality of others or the market value of their works, but also directly harm the interests of buyers and disrupt the normal cultural market. These are all difficult to remedy by the existing provisions on the right of name and reputation. In view of the fact that the current law is difficult to effectively remedy the second case, it is not unreasonable to refer to the relevant provisions of the infringement of the right of signature to hear the case in public for the sake of fairness, but it is meaningless from a legal point of view. The Guide to Berne Convention, edited by the World Intellectual Property Organization, holds that the right to confirm the identity of an author includes the right to prohibit counterfeiting others to add the author's name to a work that is not the author.

Legal basis: Article 10, paragraph 1, item 2 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), namely, the right to indicate the identity of the author and sign his name on the work. Where another person's work is used, the name of the author and the name of the work shall be indicated.