Importance of Copyright Protection in the Modern World

Intellectual property
law

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................2
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Critically examine the justifications for copyright protection and discuss whether the exclusive
rights continue to serve a functional purpose in the modern world. ..............................................3
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Intellectual Property is development or creation of new inventions, work of literature,
artistic, images, designs and many more. A person who creates something new is considered the
sole creator and has absolute right over that creation or invention and such rights are called as
intellectual property rights. Intellectual rights permits the creator to impose conditions and
restriction with the view to establish complete control over the creation1. To govern modern
Intellectual property, the Intellectual Property Act 2014 was introduced with some important
reforms and changes with regard to present standards on UK intellectual property law. This Act
was introduced to modernise the Intellectual property law. This Act received royal assent in May
2014 and made enforce throughout the territory of United Kingdom on 1st October 2014. These
intellectual property rights are governed within the ambit of various legal jurisprudence. Lots of
paper work being executed to give legal protection to invention in the form of
patents ,copyrights, trademarks, design rights etc. This report will cover the importance
copyright protection and explanations will me made on the purpose of copy rights protection in
the modern world.
TASK
Critically examine the justifications for copyright protection and discuss
whether the exclusive rights continue to serve a functional purpose in the
modern world.
There are number of distinct justifications made in copyright discussion with the view to
grant protection to the creator towards creation or invention with an absolute right. Modern
copyright laws provides authors and creators to create a set of rights to protect the work of
inventors from getting exploited. There are many conventions being organised for for the
protection of intellectual property such as , the Paris Convention for the Protection of
Industrial Property(1883) and Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic
Works( 1886). These conventions are the modern efforts to protect and prevent intellectual
property from being misused. At present, there are more than dozen of international treaties just
for intellectual property rights which are broadly managed and controlled by World Intellectual
1 Bently L, and Sherman B, Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press 2014)