The rapid growth of information competition with digital circumstance during the latter half of the 20th century. Today is a society of a digital information society, characterized by the internet and multimedia. It's come from development of computer...
The rapid growth of information competition with digital circumstance during the latter half of the 20th century. Today is a society of a digital information society, characterized by the internet and multimedia. It's come from development of computer and internet. The affirmative concept of digital circumstance makes people can access the information easily. However, the digital techniques have made copies easier and more convenient, which led to infringement of copyright.
Today, we are experiencing big change in circumstance such as states of the computer, IT and internet, multi-media as well. So called "a Copernican revolution about copyright law", digital circumstance is influencing our life: politics, economy and culture etc. This digital era is completed by new technical environment. effect of internet to copyright is not physical one like a book or disks but electronic from such as software. Second, people can copy any program from internet completely and then distribute it to the world. Also they can get the materials in same way. Third, electronic transfer by internet means that the things is transferred to other countries and this is challenging the copyright infringement. Fourth, most countries have restricting profit-making use and private use of copyright law but the separation is unclear in not clear.
Copyright is the right to be granted by copyright law, it is legally restricted. If somebody use it without permission, they must be responsible for that. In addition to copyrights, intellectual property right is easily infringed and difficult to disclose and make uncountable loss, cost and effort to recover it. Moreover, it is not possible to measure the loss caused. Like this, because of internet's development, it getting difficult of copyrights infringement and salvation and protective law creation is not easy one by fast development of internet. With this trends, in December of 2006, the ministry of culture and Tourism has current law reflect the problem caused by digital and internet environment development and indicate the necessary of the rights protection, suggest revision of copyrights law to enhance cultural development by making new article for fair use of property and prevention of copyrights and the article is passed on December 1st, announce it on December 28th and going to be on effect on June 6th of 2007. For amendment, in case of property with a legal permission, latter applicant have an advantage of not searching owner of copyrights, make minister have the authority to govern the policy on copyrights control and protection. Minister do legal action for preventing unlawful act and developing cultural enhancement between person to person. In case of profit-making infringement, the amendment is include that protect our cultural industry from unauthorized duplication by taking away unauthorized materials, disuse and elimination with crime indicatable upon complaint.
Fast development of internet and digital amend the basic conception of duplication, distribution, publication, transmitting, download, etc. However, as property has digitalized, it is very easy to be distributed and coped so original purpose is twisted.
In this case, it is very difficult to protect the infringement. In this treaties, among infringements, review the temporary storing in RAM, property infringement by web, pornography without copyrights, responsibility of cloud computing service provider, etc and suggest the protection for digital property and make public use of digital copyrights through the action above. At last, this paper acknowledged a problem that with regard to new digital works, application of restrictive regulations of copyrights indicated in our current copyright law cannot deal with fast changing digital environments in a suitable manner, and, thus, it suggested to new remedies.