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ARTICLE · 03 JULY 2017

Copyright Protection Of Online Content

With the ever-evolving social media and new platforms, content is generated in gigantic proportions. Every person is contributing to the tera bytes of new online content on a regular basis

IndiaIntellectual Property
N. Mahabir
N. Mahabir
  1. With the ever-evolving social media and new platforms, content is generated in gigantic proportions.  Every person is contributing to the tera bytes of new online content on a regular basis. 
  2. Every person is an author of the content created, assuming it to be an original content or considered as original in the copyright context.  The content takes various forms, be it a literary work (text), artistic work (images) or cinematographic content (videos).  Amongst these, literary content is more prevalent and more often created considering the relative ease of its creation and communication.  It is another matter that a caricature can tell a story through an image.
  3. What rights enures to the content posted on a social media site or any other online medium.  Online medium and social medium presents unique opportunities and its own kind of challenges.  It enables the author to present his or her views, seek comments and respond to such comments in quiet succession. 

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