Overview

This book addresses the issues raised by the intersection between copyright law and technological innovation, more specifically by digitalization and internet. These developments have sparked public debate on the risks and harm that digitalization have created for authors, publishers, libraries, technology companies, the general public, and the corresponding legal framework. Though there exists laws for the protection of copyright, yet the extent they have been able to serve the interest of copyright holders has become an issue in present scenario. The issues are many, such as what legislators can do to enforce proper implementation of copyright laws in a digitalized environment, how to control the free flow of digitalized pirated copyright contents over the internet, whether the technology alone can provide safeguard to copyright violation due to digitalization and internet, whether an international treaty is required to harmonize the copyright laws particularly with regard to online copyright violations, etc. All these issues and the harm they are causing alongwith the means to solve and many more have found their due place in the appropriate portions of the text material.