Copyright infringement - what can be done to prevent it??

Copyright Infringement is a prevailing problem which is leading to massive revenue loss for publishing and broadcasting companies. It is a big challenge to protect copyrights and stop plagiarism in the current situation because of the wide growth of Internet over the world. The purpose of this project is to create a system that controls the copyright infringement of any material by making the people aware that it is a kind of felony, using advanced technologies to control piracy and implementing strict laws on the people who commit this felony. In this way, the person who wishes to do this will be bewared of doing it.

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights possessed by a creator to protect his/her creation against unauthorized usage. Creation can be of any form like poems, paintings, software photographs, writings, literary work, movies, audio etc. To get a copyright one needs to submit his/her work to the copyright commission in material form. The companies buy the copyrights from the creators investing lots of money. The companies invest huge money on copyrights and end up with losses because the sale doesn’t meet their expectation due to piracy especially through Internet and doing this is unauthorized and also completely illegal. Due to this sort of plagiarism a lot of revenue is lost for the publishing and broadcasting companies.


There are many ways in which this process is being done. The copyrighted materials of artist are copied by sharing through internet using peer to peer Software’s like limewire, torrent etc., and used for their own needs. There are not only lots of hardware like CD burners, copiers, scanners, printers etc. involved in this process but also software like CD-rippers, peer to peer file sharing software, cracks for software etc. Any new material like movies, music, software’s are available on the internet the next day they are released and these are distributed and shared by people all over the world .Most of them don’t know that it is wrong and some of them don’t even care that even though they know about it, as the government has no strict laws in regulating this.


This sort of plagiarism can be eradicated by implementing strict laws, using advanced technology and making the people aware of this felony. The CD/DVDs should be made such a way that it can be played and cannot be ripped. Patents and ideas should not be displayed on the internet. Books should not be shared in the .PDF format. Instead they should be shared in such a way that they cannot be copied and shared. Only public domain material should be shared

The major hurdle for this sort of piracy is primarily the Internet. There should be a constant monitoring over the internet to stop sharing of files through peer to peer. The CD/DVD copiers are also making the situation worse by replicating some copyright works sold in CD/DVD. The social organizations must make people aware of this crime by advertising and organizing some public meetings. Another way is that the government should make the laws strict on these kinds of cyber crimes and impeach severe fines or punishment to the people who commit the crime depending of the level of the crime they commit. In this way, the people who try to commit this kind of crime become bewared of doing it. The research groups and companies are collaboratively doing extensive research on developing devices and anti-piracy software that can stop not only making copies of the copyrighted material but also stop them from sharing.

We see that when the piracy is entirely eradicated, we will be certainly exclaimed at the results in the profits of various companies. Also, the day is not for away to eradicate this plagiarism with the joint effort of Law and Technology.