What Is the Relevance of Copyright Laws in the Digital World?

What Is the Relevance of Copyright Laws in the Digital World?

The new reality of information exchange and content reuse models in the digital world has been accepted by the emerging new-media companies.

The existing copyright laws need to be repealed as they cannot be applied to the emerging world driven by the latest tech tools and artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Here are the excerpts from a “Consultative Paper to Get Draconian Copyright Laws Changed or Repealed.” The paper has been authored by Rakesh Raman. The full paper has also been given below.

Excerpts:

The archaic copyright laws that were written in the pre-tech era should not be applicable in today’s modern world where there is an information explosion and most people share content innocuously on social media or millions of blogs without any evil intent.

The social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Linkedin allow this kind of content lifting by giving sharing options under every tweet, video, or social media post, although in the traditional world it is construed an offence.

The new reality of information exchange and content reuse models in the digital world has been accepted by the emerging new-media companies.

All these developments aim to strengthen the information exchange mechanism through web or digital channels under the “FAIR USE” guidelines which do not adhere to ancient copyright rules.

These days, a significant proliferation of companies that abuse the copyright laws is happening. These companies baselessly accuse users of copyright violations with the evil motives of terrorizing them and extorting money from them as fines.

Last year (2022), I also fell victim to a fraud perpetrated by a Germany-based company Copytrack which falsely accused me of copyright violation related to another company. Since it was a false accusation, I complained against Copytrack to the Chief of Police, Berlin Police in Germany and other authorities.

I explained the entire case to them and urged them to initiate criminal proceedings against Copytrack managing director Marcus Schmitt and his company for terrorizing me and other people to extort money by using a fraudulent cyber scheme. After that so far I have not received any threat from Copytrack.

Similarly, my editing rights were restricted under the pretext of copyright violations on Wikipedia where I was contributing content as an editor. Ironically, however, the entire Wikipedia runs with lifted content. I was not allowed to edit content when I started adding information to Wikipedia about the alleged financial frauds of Adani Group companies.

The existing copyright laws should preferably be repealed as they are increasingly being misused to harass innocent users. However, until these laws are completely annulled, the local and international judicial frameworks should provide sufficient safeguards to the consumers.

[ You can click here to read the full paper on copyright laws in the e-book format and it is also given below. ]

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