Copyright Protection In The Digital Age: Challenges And Opportunities

Priyasha Bhowmick, GD Goenka University

ABSTRACT

Copyright is a form of intellectual property rights that protects the rights of the author of any creative and artistic work. The work that are protected under the copyright laws are artistic, literary, dramatic and musical work. The author or the owner of the work has the right to use, sell, distribute, display, perform or derivate the original work. The copyright laws in the past decade also covers computer programs and software in its scope of protection. The growing digitalization has also impacted the implementation of copyright protection. It has given people access to copyrighted work and a platform where it can be shared to millions of people, this has lead infringement and piracy of copyrighted works. The digital age has made the sharing and accessing information over the internet fast and easy and that has lead to challenges relating infringement of copyright protection of authors. This research paper will study the enforcement of such copyright protection in the era of digitalization and also deals with the opportunities that are presented due to use of digital platforms and also the challenges that are faced due to the development of digital platforms where any information can be shared in seconds through the use of internet.