IPR
Understand the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the challenges of the digital age.
Cyberspace has created one of the biggest changes in the copyright area by enabling anyone with access to a computer and internet to copy and distribute content in ways that only professional creative producers and distributors could do in the past – ways which tend to compromise the integrity of IPR law. However, if laws are made very stringent, an adverse social dilemma could arise. Lamoureaux et al have argued that current US laws on intellectual property are so stringent that they tend to implicate virtually every computer user, and “[w]hen everyone is a criminal, the legal system and public policy are deeply compromised.” View More
