Should ‘WhatsApp' Be Held Liable For Not Reviewing Materials Being Shared On Their Platform That Infringes Authors' Copyright?

INTRODUCTION

"The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author's basic human right"― Kalyan C. Kankanala,

What a creator creates from his imagination and his idea is a valuable asset for him above everything else. The idea of ownership of the 'bundle of rights' for is so profoundly embedded in the general public and the proof of it can be seen in the jurisprudence of property laws. Not just has man contrived laws to manage the domain of tangible items, intangible articles have additionally been perused into the extent of property. One of the prime instances of Intangible property is Intellectual Property (IP).

According to the World Trade Organization, ''Intellectual property rights (IPR) are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.'' In other words, Intellectual Property Rights