Digital Technology and Copyright

Digital Technology and Copyright: Need to Redesign the Present Analog-based Law System

Koichiro HAYASHI (Vice President and Professor, Graduate School of Information Security, Japanese Institute of Global Communications)

With the advent of IT technology, information that used to be an indivisible part of its medium has come to be traded and consumed independently. But this is making it increasingly difficult to protect copyrights. The extent to which the current intellectual rights system can cope with such a trend is limited, and thus the necessity to redesign the system of law to accommodate the digital age has become evident.

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