A Report on Internet, Technology, and Intellectual Property Theft

This report examines the increasing issue of intellectual property theft in the digital age, focusing on the impact of the internet and technological advancements. It discusses various forms of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, and how they are vulnerable to exploitation and theft through online platforms and cybercrime. The report highlights the challenges in protecting intellectual property rights, the economic consequences of piracy and infringement, and the evolving legal landscape surrounding digital intellectual property. It also touches upon the role of social media in facilitating intellectual property theft and the measures needed to safeguard intellectual property in an increasingly interconnected world. Desklib is a valuable resource for students seeking similar reports and study materials.

The arrival of internet
and technology has
increased intellectual
property theft for
example the use of
copyright materials
Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Technology is the most important factor as it helps out in today time to draw the attention
and also to manage the technical advancement. It aims to format and manage the general
working through which they can uplift and frame the innovation and the digitation. Technology
provides the cultural aspects through which all the companies and their working can be framed
with the general adherence. This helps in order to manage and maintain the scientific knowledge
through which all the machinery and the equivalents are being used. For all such companies and
the organisation the most important element which is being used is internet as with the change in
the time and function there is being evaluated that all the major feature and the working can be
managed and their seems to make the connection with all the knowledge which there by deals. In
this report their will be a discussion about the internet, technology and all the intellectual
property advancement with the general exploitation and theft.
MAIN BODY
Internet is the general large communication which is made between the network and the
connecting servers through which the complacencies and the large organisation can manage and
maintain the connection with the individuals. It helps out to frame and maintain the working in
order to clarify and connect the strong network internet is being used. This is the digitalised
process which provides the methods in which the companies and the consumers can connect with
each other and can transfer the goals and the general function for their benefit. This allows the
people to connect with each other and also to manage and transfer the information with the
general source and method. It generates the framework of different software through computer
programs in order to implicate the understanding and also to manage the exchanged information
in the general time period. It helps in promoting the mechanism through which al;l the common
set and the major network are being aligned (Wilner, 2018).
. And it gives all the proper security through which the person can manage the working in
their systems and working. It evaluates the nature through which all the transmission and the
rapidly flow of information is being generated. Theses applications involves all the methods as
along with the web channels SEO and different seraph engines through which the companies can
make their services to be given to general public and also frame the organisation to implicate the

performance in order to maintain the exchange and the general safety and security in individual
life.
Technology is the scientific knowledge through which the aims and the practical through
which they can frame the manipulation and also the human environment is phrased. It eventually
involves all the methods through which the workplaces can gain more tools and the methods for
working and they will also generate the record keeping, data management, robots, word
processing all are required to be made so as to implicate the framework ODF managing the
business and the functions (Yar, 2017). Technology helps in the adaptation of all the secured
methods through which individuals can mange the work and can also evaluate the general sense
through which all the advancement can be opted and also the automation in the companies can be
maintained. Technological advancement also made the life easy of all the person in daily basis as
most of the person are totally being dependent on the working and the management of the
computer and the ongoing sections and the framework. This generates the implication through
which all the nature and the working is evaluated and the companies can opt and manage the
frame of working in the framework of time.
Intellectual property is the most important method which considers the creation of mind
and the work which involves all the artistic, literary, inventions and all the work which are the
sole right of the individuals. This is considers to be protected by the copyright, patent, trademark
and many more as all such helps in managing the Intellectual property to be focused and munch
involved in order to manage the security of data and also to work for the public interest. This
Intellectual property helps in striving the balance between the public interest and the innovators
as tit focus on giving all the inventions a proper value and also protect their work and the method
from all. This generalise all the nature through which it consolidates and maintain the working
principles (Singh, 2018).
Intellectual property advancement is that it focus on maintain the work of the innovators
to be separated and secured and also make them to protect the original rights by giving them the
rights through which they can manage the wok and make the better creation. They helps in
generation of income as with the help of technological licensing and also by implementation the
general work and medium. It helps in gaining the income and loss and obligating the considering
the ideas through which safeguarding measures are being taken in record. It creates and helps
in ,making the inventions through which all the company can manage the work and the

framework through which it can apply the research and development through which all the
conditions in the employment are being safeguarded. It also implement the protection through
which they can manage the work and also focus on giving the nature through which
administration of the process and the creation in manageable is focused. This devotes all the
general adherence and the property rights (Kur, 2017).
Intellectual property Exploitation can be exploited in various different ways like it
usually implicates out the methods through which the company can majorly focus on giving the
infringements. As when analysed the most important problems which is being developed is the
infringement of any of the Intellectual property Exploitation rights as it generates the major
issues through which they manage the work and also consider the conditions through which all
the exploitation of business is seen. As in the trademark the companies use to copy the ideas of
others by making the same product which will have the same features and this will make the
customers to be confused regarding the work and the functions, the person as in the usual time
period are much involve in the cyber crime and try to make all such conditions through which
the cyber crime is being made. It involves all the issues in the protection of the society and the
individual as that creates a major affect on all. Their has been seen that Intellectual property
Exploitation is the most concerned issues in today times, as it is being seen that all the
companies even the big organisation are facing this issue where infringement of their legal rights
are being taken and there is being seen that major roles and the nature through which the
company can abrupt the role and the framework is seen. All such things use to effect the
company and their working and Intellectual property (McIllwain, 2017). Exploitation is the issue
which make the company to be managed and framed in different areas and the working. It
involves all the methods through which license of the individuals which promotes the protection
and the general working is considered and this also manages the work to be given ion the general
course of time. All the companies tends to make the protection and Intellectual property as the
most promotion thongs is now effected oath the nature and the due course of business practises.
It majorly involves all the working and the methods through which the individual can be
protected from all the original work not being copied. Trademark, patent, copyright all required
the IP to be emergent so as to make the work considered in the original segment and nature and
also to implicate the general understanding (Smith, Burke and Ward, 2020).

As the digital technology has been the greatest achievement of the humankind, there has
been the easiness in the working of businesses and individuals by the upgradation of the new
technologies in the market. It has not only made the working easy but has also widen the scope
of the people to do their work in a speedy manner and in enhanced manner (Denoncourt, 2021).
It has freed up the time from the manual task as it enables the people to keep in touch at global
level and also to be informed on the scale which has never been experienced in the history yet.
The new as well as insidious threat to the use of the technology and internet is for the
intellectual property rights. For instance, it is the threat to the social media. Recently, the
intellectual property office has warned that the social media is the key part pf the complex eco
system in order to divert the traffic from the authentic sites which covers the myriad rogue online
platforms. For instance, the 0offcial pages of the internationally known brands on the social
media sites like Instagram, facebook, etc. has been subjected to the counterfeits by making use of
the tout in order to irate the goods as well as counterfeits (Angelo and et. al., 2020).
The intellectual property theft can be referred to as the theft of the material which is
copyrighted or the theft of the trade secrets and the violation of the trademark. The copyright can
be defined as the legal right of the publisher, author, composer or any other person who have
created the work in order to exclusively publish, print, distribute or perform the work in the
public. There are many examples of the copyright materials which are stolen online which
includes the recorded music, computer softwares, electronic games, and movies.
The theft of the trade secrets is defined as the theft of the plans, ideas, technologies,
methods or any of the sensitive information from every type of the industries which includes the
manufacturers, institutions of financial services, and the computer industry (Corrales, Fenwick
and Forgó, 2017). The trade secrets are the plans for the higher speed of the computers which are
designed for the highly fuelled efficient cars, recipe of the popular salad dressing, computer
manufacturing procedures and many others, these are the secrets which are owned by the
companied and it gives the competitive edge in the market to the companies. The theft of the
trade secret or the copyrights results in damaging the competitive edge of the company which
leads to economic base of the business.
The trade mark can be defined as the registered name or the identifying symbol of the
product which may be used by the owner of the product. The violation of the trade mark involves

the copying of the name of the brand, counterfeiting like types of the clothing, shoes, electronic
equipment’s and also selling these products as the original and genuine product.
There are mainly two forms of the intellectual property which are involved in the cyber
crimes which includes trade secrets and copyrighted materials. Piracy is the term which is mainly
used to describe the intellectual property theft such as piracy of the music, piracy of the software,
etc. The theft of the intellectual property affects not only the business but also the whole
economy as there are billions of money being lost in the IP pirates, for instance, the thieves of
the pirated computer softwares for the programs or games to the millions of the internet users,
the organization which have actually produced the real product loses the sales as well as royalties
due to original creator (Bajpai, 2020).
In the history, when there was no use of the computers, the crime relating to intellectual
property involved a lot of labour and time. The music tapes as well music were required to be
copied, produced physically and also transported for the sales. The individual has to make the
sale in the person and in order to steal the trade secret, the actual paper plans or the blueprints or
plans has to be taken physically from the building of company and likewise sold to the person.
Then in 21st century, the music, softwares as well as trade secret pirates are operated by way of
internet, anything which may be digitalised- reduced to the series of ones and zeros and may be
transmitted rapidly from one of the computer to the other. There is no decline of the quality in
the fourth, second and third generation copies, the pirated copies brought in the form of digital of
the work which is copyrighted is transmitted by using the internet which is known as warez. It is
the group which is responsible for the illegal distributing and copying of the copyrighted
materials.
The pirated trade secrets were sole from one computer to the other or the illegal groups.
These are no longer being physically stolen from the organization,. Instead, the corporate secrets
and plans are downloaded by the pirates into the computer disc. Then the information which is
stolen is transmitted worldwide in just minutes, the pirates of trade secrets have the ability to find
the pathways in the computer system of company and the item which is downloaded can be
copied. The organizations keep everything in their computer files and the pirated copies of it are
sold over internet to the customers who gives their credit card numbers and then they can
download the copies of it (Hedley, 2017).

There has also been the cyber stalking which involves the use of internet and the email in
order to stalk the other person. The crime of the stalking has been existed from decades and it us
referred to as the repeated harassment of the someone wherein the stalker acts in the threatening
behaviour towards the victim. The threatening behaviour includes following victim, making eye
contact while appearing at the workplace or home of the victim, etc. the pirates of intellectual
property uses the computers in the steals the vast amount of the copyrighted materials and also
cause the severe damage to victimised companies. The intellectual property pirates are not
required to make the sale in the travel or person rather they make use of the internet so that the
cost of selling is minimised. They target the online shoppers who are looking for discounts but
for the legitimate products, they do it by ways of internet advertisements and emails so that it
seems to be the real thing.
But it has been difficult for the law enforcement agencies to detect the infringement, and
this has even become more difficult matter on internet. Some of the experts have argued that the
technologies of digital system, have allowed the users to manipulate, duplicate and morph the
content in an instant, perfect and infinite manner, and in such ways which is undetectable and
thereby leads to expanding the opportunities for the fraud, confusion and infringement of the
intellectual property rights. Moreover, the infringing materials can be on the internet for only a
small period of time as the host and the creators of web page may delete the file within days or
hours of the posting, under these of the circumstances, the holders of the intellectual property
rights do not realise that their rights is being infringed in the cyberspace and one publication of
the protected content on internet may lead to the proliferation by rapid copying by the third
parties, the problem of detection is significant which it has stimulated growth of new line of the
business (Belson, 2019) Hence, the use of the internet as well as technology have led to the theft
of the intellectual property which is undetectable and problematic as in the fast growing
environment, it has become very difficult to detect and catch the pirator which has stolen the
copyrighted material or the trade secrets. There is also one problem apart from detecting the
infringer which is problem of the identity as well as location of the infringement. Even though
the infringement is detected, it is very important to identify the alleged infringer and where it is
the resident so it becomes the difficult task for the intellectual property right holders. It is
because of the internet and its very nature that makes the anonymity possible and the tools are

easily available like strong encryption technology which make it impossible to detect who is at
the source of the particular communication.

CONCLUSION
It is concluded from this essay that the intellectual property rights are the right provided to
the creator of the content which states that it has exclusive ownership and enjoyment of the right
and no other person has right to enjoy it. The use of the internet as well as technology has made
it easy for the infringer to infringe the rights of intellectual property right holder as it becomes
undetectable to detect the pirator. There are cyber-crimes being committed due to the fast
growing technology and internet and has made difficult to detect the pirator. The copyright
materials as well trade secrets are easy and subject to the theft of the intellectual property.

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