Intellectual property and copyright rights in the Internet environment

Abstract

The protection of intellectual property rights and copyrights is not a product of this era, but rather it is ancient. It is believed that northern Italy in the Renaissance era was the cradle of the intellectual property system. The first systematic attempt to protect inventions with a type of patent came in a law issued in Venice in the year 1474 AD, which stipulated granting an exclusive right to the individual. The first copyright system in the world arose during that century thanks to the invention of letters. The separate printing press and the printing press around the year 1440 AD. At the end of the nineteenth century, many methods and phenomena emerged, such as the development of industrial activity, the growth and expansion of railway networks, the investment of capital, and the growth of trade. Hence, it was necessary to protect copyrights as a result of the increasing phenomenon of imitation and theft of books and their spread in Europe. .

In 1883 AD, an agreement was concluded in Paris by the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, called (the Paris Agreement).
In 1891, an agreement for the suppression of false and misleading export declarations of goods was concluded in Madrid, Spain, called the Madrid Agreement.
In the Arab world, it only appeared recently. The first copyright law known to the Arab countries was the Ottoman Copyright Law issued in 1910 AD.

Therefore, it is necessary to study copyright and related rights to know the meanings and concepts they contain, and the impact of modern technology on those rights. As there is a diversity of sources and ways of accessing information, as well as a diversity of different publishing methods, it was not limited to printed materials using traditional (paper) methods, but rather it went beyond this and became what is known as electronic publishing, until it reached publishing on the Internet in the current era, or what is known as digital intellectual property, Or the intellectual property of digital works (IP Digital works).