How has copyright kept up with advances in technology?

August 25, 2009
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

The field of copyright and related rights has expanded enormously with the technological progress of the last several decades, which has brought new ways of spreading creations by such forms of worldwide communication as satellite broadcast and compact discs.

Dissemination of works via the Internet is but the latest development, which raises new questions concerning copyright.

WIPO is deeply involved in the ongoing international debate to shape new standards for copyright protection in cyberspace. The organization administers the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO

Performances and Phonogram Treaty (often known together as the “Internet Treaties”), which set down international norms aimed at preventing unauthorized access to and use of creative works on the Internet or other digital networks. -WIPO