Information Technology Copyright Issues
There is no doubt that the digital revolution ushered forward by the computer and Internet age has changed myriad aspects of contemporary society. In addition to significant social and cultural changes and the evolution of political discourse on a global basis, the digital revolution has also profoundly changed the landscape of centuries of established legal principles that pertain to the proprietary ownership and protection of original intellectual property (Halbert & Ingulli, 2009). At the time that modern laws of copyright, trademark, and the very definition of intellectual property were created and defined as legal concepts the prospect of their light-speed transmission and storage in vast quantities by ephemeral entities that exist mainly in cyberspace were completely outside of the scope of contemplation by legislators and intellectual property creators alike.
As a result, the first two decades of the Internet age have witnessed legal disputes arising from the unauthorized copying and dissemination of intellectual property in ways that unquestionably violate the spirit of the protections that intellectual property laws were obviously meant to confer. The fundamental problem is that the legal systems and case law have not yet evolved sufficiently to extend the same types of protection to intellectual property in the cyber medium that have traditionally protected intellectual property in printed and other hard-copy formats for hundreds of years (Halbert & Ingulli, 2009).
Understanding the Fundamental Issues Presented by the Cyber Medium
A perfect example of the extent to which existing legal protections against unauthorized use and dissemination of intellectual property are the ongoing legal disputes between producers of intellectual property and entities such as Google, Megaupload, Youtube, and Hulu.com that enable Internet users to upload and store the intellectual property of movie and music producers (in particular) in formats that enable their widespread sharing, copying, and dissemination by countless individual consumers without...
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