Internet and copyright: opposingpresenceAdvent of internet age also meant an easy availability of art,

information and more without specific buying or payment.

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Advent of internet age also meant an easy availability of art, information and

more without specific buying or payment. Before internet became an ordinary

tool and device available to most of the people, copyright had an important

and promising role for the inventors and writers. They had a way to protect

their work from illegal usage and further development without their consent

was not possible, their payment was dependent on their originality, the credits

were judiciously divided. But digital age has changed the trend; anyone who is

an admirer of art can download famous artworks, get a print and frame it on

their own walls. The concept of payed ownership and more has faded with easy

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available copies, penetrating into all economic zones. It is not anymore a

function of the upper class to collect art and souvenirs, anybody can do it with

internet and connectivity optimized.

Copyright is an essential part for the inventors, it provides them justice for the

hard work and uniqueness of their work, think of a person who gave his/her

best, used intellect and worked extra hours to gain such a position. Now, think

of every time we download a free copy of e-book pirated or a famous painting

as the wallpaper on our desktops. Although, art crossed the economic

boundaries thanks to printing and internet but it also meant degrading the

works of a person to something common and easily available. The government

of the countries and internet search engines are yet to design a strong law

which protects the artist or inventor’s work. Social networking sites India

provides mostly information which has no authorship.We can easily download

copyright free photos too or song’s mp3 versions.

Content is easily available online, irrespective of the authorship, one can find

essays,paragraphs, questions and what not on internet which are worthy of

ownership but have none because of lack of copyright rules in the internet

world. How many times have we used the help of tutorials online to solve work

or home problems, but how many of those times did we realize that for most

of the content we had no one to thank in person but the search engine. We

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need to differentiate between a search engine which provides information and

more depending on available websites and does not generate it themselves;

most of it is still done by individuals with intellect and reasoning. Copyright

needs to be taken more seriously than it has been in the recent past. Internet

will otherwise completely erase the concept of ownership in the coming times.

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