版权的作用就是尽力调整权利人的利益与作品读者的需求之间的矛盾,更好地促进科学文化知识的传播与发展。为此,伯尔尼公约不但对权利人所应享有的专有权利作了明确的规定,而且允许缔约国对这种专有权的例外加以规定,以便使读者能够使用版权作品。因此,各缔约国都据此根据本国的情况对专有权的例外作出了具体规定,例如,在英国这种例外包 The function of copyright is to make every effort to adjust the contradiction between the rights of the obligee and the needs of the readers of the work, and to better promote the dissemination and development of the scientific and cultural knowledge. To this end, the Berne Convention not only provides for explicit stipulations on the exclusive rights enjoyed by the patentee, but also allows the Contracting States to provide for the exception of such exclusive rights in order to enable the reader to use the copyrighted work. Accordingly, each Contracting State hereby makes specific provisions on the exceptions to exclusive rights in the national context, for example, in the United Kingdom