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VOL. 3, ISSUE 4 (2021)
Emerging trends in digital copy right law
Authors
Ankita Singh, Janmejay Singh
Abstract
The copyright law in past records is known to be the heritage of technology. It has experienced organized changes keeping in view the nature, scope, and purview of technology involved to protect the public interest of originality, novelty, and creativity. Its main thrust is to afford sufficient encouragements to authors and creators of different copyright works, on the one hand, and make such works available to the public on the other hand. While the silhouette of copyright law have always been pinched by the burgeoning in the technological world, the unfolding of digital technologies towards the ceasing decades of the twentieth century as defining paradigms of new age communication embossed a whole new set of challenges to copyright regimes. Primary rights of reproduction distribution feigned tangible physical copies only of a work. The modern technologies convoyed in non- material and sharing. The paramount intention of the copyright law is to strike out an equilibrium between rights of the copyright holders and the general public. With the dawn of the Digital Environment, the access, utilization, replication or transformation of the indigenous work has become really facile. The copyright law had to regulate itself between the need to honour the creator and the desirability of making such works public. With the ubiquity of the Internet as an irreplaceable and completely new medium of global human communication all over the world, contracted into a digital universal village, the security of copyright works has become a graver alarm for lawyers, as well as, the other stakeholders. The Internet together with "Peer to Peer" computer setups makes it conceivable for a gradually larger number of individuals to take part in collective information production, thereby weaken the efforts to provide incentives to original authors of intellectual property. The Internet assists the approximately-rapid, exclusive quality reproduction of and worldwide, lightening- speed broadcasting of copyrighted works. The problems and paradoxes underlying the digital dilemma, by nature, are linked with the clash between the concept of “information wants to be free” and the demands for tougher copyrighted control of information in the digital environment. In contradiction of the above background, this essay shall scrutinize and critically evaluate emerging issues concerning copyright protection in a digital environment.
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Pages:26-31
How to cite this article:
Ankita Singh, Janmejay Singh "Emerging trends in digital copy right law ". International Journal of Law, Policy and Social Review, Vol 3, Issue 4, 2021, Pages 26-31
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