Public Nuisance In The Digital Age: Copyright Infringement, Online Piracy, And Global Legal Responses
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Ayushi Shresth, Galgotias University
ABSTRACT
Public nuisance refers to acts or omissions that result in widespread harm, inconvenience or injury to the rights of the public, has remained a broad concept, but with the digital era, it has gone wider. In the current nuisance in relation to digital copyright infringement and online piracy, the paper considers how the doctrine of nuisance in the public has been transformed and the two issues are presented as the modern day nuisances that interfere with the collective cultural and economic wellbeing. As technology continues to evolve at a great pace, the study highlights the necessity in the near future of bringing forth the issues of jurisdiction and enforcement through ways that are both adaptive and legal in the protection of intellectual property rights.
The research analyzes the role of the interplay between intermediary liability, safe harbor, and the role of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in reducing digital piracy by conducting a comparative study of legal systems based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of the United States, the Copyright Directive of the European Union, and the Copyright Act of India. It also explores the technological aspects of enforcement, such as Digital Rights Management (DRM), watermarking, blockchain, and AI-based detection technologies, as well as critically discusses the conflict between fair use, consumer rights, and privacy issues.
It puts digital copyright infringement in the context of a wider transnational legal and ethical framework by looking at international legal documents like the Berne Convention and the TRIPS Agreement. The study removes that failure of copyright protection used online not only represents a wrong in the privacy sense, but it also reflects in the socio-economic sense as a harm to the society that requires a unified global effort to combat. Finally, the research recommends that the doctrine of the public nuisance should evolve to include online disturbances, and the creation of proactive, technologically conscious, and internationally coordinated legal systems must be created to allow creative freedoms to coexist with democratic ones in the digital age.
Keywords: Public Nuisance, Copyright Infringement, Online Piracy, Intellectual Property, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Intermediary Liability, Digital Rights Management, Fair Use, Jurisdictional Challenges, Cross-Border Enforcement, Technological Protections, International Treaties, Legal Framework, Socio-Economic Impact.
