The Importance Of Online Copyright

I. Introduction

Internet is the most important medium of communication of our times. It is widely viewed as the fastest growing communication phenomenon of all time. The Global online population increased from year 2002 exceeded 250 million users and reached the range of 300-500 million by the end of 2006 and by the end of 2013, the number of Internet users increased to 2,802,478,934. In most regions, Internet population has reached mass populations to an extent that businesses cannot be run without the internet. With the constant advancement of technology and decreasing costs of telecommunications, it is believed that this growth will continue for years to come.

One of the most significant contributions of the internet is that it provides

It is a bundle of rights including, inter alia, rights of reproduction, communication to the public, adaptation and translation of the work. There could be minor difference in the composition of the rights depending on the work. Online copyright infringement is said to have occurred when a copyrighted work such as a song, movie, or text is copied, modified, displayed, or performed electronically without the permission of the copyright owner. When a copyright in a work of a person is infringed electronically, it becomes even more challenging to locate the infringer and penalize him. There is also a constant debate surrounding the liability of the internet service providers (for example website owners which serves as platform for online publishing of information, e.g.: YouTube, face book, etc.) in case of an infringement, and to what extent can these service providers be held liable for or what shall be their duties or

.Illegal distribution of copyrightable material on online bulletin boards has become a huge problem. The users who download and upload copyrighted materials without the permission of the copyright owner no doubt violate the copyright law, except when it is covered by exceptions and limitations, but whether bulletin board operators are also liable is a matter of debate.

2. Access to information An organization opens up a database to access to s list of materials or indeed, the materials themselves, which can be transferred by File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP is a part of TCP/IP protocol suite. FTP works on the client server principle. This means that one communicating party runs client software which requests information and the other runs server software which meets the request.

The web creates a mesh of software links between the documents. Clicking on a hypertext link in a web document can take the user to another document on the same computer or to another document in another computer in some other part of the world. This is made possible by the hyper text transmission protocol (HTTP). Hyper Text markup language (HTTP), which creates a unique URL for each document on the web. The following are some of the ways in which information can be