| In recent years,according to the knowledge society and the modern law development,there is a crucial issue which arise the protection of Copyright across the Digital world.In view of the possibility of access through the Internet by the public to all kinds of information and cultural works,there are many issues related to the problem of the infringement of the intellectual property rights that the creator should be enjoying behind his published ideas,even if it’s still without sufficient guarantees when his diffusion is made through the Internet.Now a day we all knows that producing this kind of information often requires significant investments,such as a new computer programs,a database,multimedia,music or film recordings.So,one question is,if producing materials is expensive or difficult,while copying it is cheap and easy,why the piracy of those materials are still so strong?It is possible that a big percentage of users do not respect the rules because they know that the penalty for this illicit is minimal,even irrelevant?As it is in the case of some of the countries that the penalties established in most of their legislation’s are not applied.Paradoxically,why reproducing that information is very easy and cheap,as the high percentage of illegal reproduction of music,books,software or videos shows us?The answers are varied,and it’s officially known that legislators around the world have been trying to balance the need to create better mechanisms to help maintain the protection of the copyright in this new global context and dependent on the new technologies.But even with that,the copyright protection has become deeply difficult due to a drastic increase in the utilization of Internet and related platforms.Honestly,it is still necessary to establish more links between the copyright and its respective protection with their creations,proving to be a work not only necessary,but also urgent.In the first chapter of this thesis,I study the overview of the digital copyright development,starting from the definition,Digital Copyright concepts to protect and its purpose.The International Related Conventions addressed,and adding some related Right.The second chapter discuss about the Internet as the key stakeholder of the infringement problem on Digital Copyright Protection.Blaming the Internet as the origin of the problems.The types of infringement are analyzed,Difficulties on the balance between the Right of owners and the Right of users and the weakness for the infringement are also added in this chapter.The third chapter systematically reviews The emerging trend and the International answers to the problems that includes the WIPO Internet Treaties(WCT,WPPT),and the analysis of its main articles(Art.11 of WCT and Art.18 of WPPT),reviewing the WIPO implemented legislation’s such as E.C Directive,DMCA and FTA Agreements,The effective remedies also were analyzed such as,TPMs and DRM.The fourth chapter focuses on the need for an international harmonization.The chapter five writes the reflections and the suggestions of the study of the study on the International Copyright Protection in Digital technologies,that’s compose by reflections,critics and the contribution to the proposed suggestions. |
