Copyright Piracy Laws in UAE: Understanding the Penalties

Running head: COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATION LAW
Commercial and Corporation Law

COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATION LAW 1
Introduction
The copyright law in UAE is said to be very different from the other countries. The
people have the wrong assumption about the laws of copyright piracy in UAE and deem to be
similar to the common law. UAE is a civil law jurisdiction that has been highly influenced by
French law and Islamic law. Therefore, the laws of copyright in UAE have been
fundamentally diversified. In this report, the laws of copyrights on the piracy in UAE will be
discussed and how these laws apply will be discussed.
Issue
The digital age providing us many benefits on daily basis we can share information
globally with only a click of a button but unfortunately often the information which has been
providing us is obtained by pirates. Pirates here not referring to any man on ships and loot
other ships treasure .pirates are in fact another team of people who are distributing illegal
information and material ranging from computer software to moves. Without any
authorization or licenses and sharing the material without the consent of the author
government around the world collaborating via the services of international organizations.
Such as world intellectual property organization to combat piracy and to solve the problem of
illegal copyright (Price & AlDebasi, 2017).
Protection
Many times the question arises why piracy is illegal anyway especially when pirated
content is reaching a wider spectrum of audience otherwise unable to enjoy it. However,
people fail to realize behind these multibillionaire industries original author are the ones who
are getting damage the most through the real publishers loses the chance of gaining profit.
The greater impact was on the real author who actually depends on the sales of the work. This
is an example of the negative connotation that piracy entails .this creates problems for the
artists, programmer who are actually living out of their work (Verdoodt & Lievens, 2016).
Enforcement
Intellectual property rights are being taken more seriously in the UAE and if any
violation then it will be subject to legal action in the law of the court. The pirates have been