Copyright: fighting piracy and plagiarism in the digital age

Abstract

Every day more and more pages are appearing on the Internet with free access to works whose copyright and property rights belong to publishers or individual authors. The practice of using free content in the publishing world dates back long before the digital revolution, even before the Internet. But the main problem facing the publishing sector today is that pirated content and products create direct competition for publishing, inhibiting the development of intellectual property. Piracy in the publishing industry has grown significantly over the past four years, with a significant increase following the first quarantines of the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, publishing piracy was greater than film, making it the second largest digital piracy media sector after television. The search for a reliable solution to eliminate online piracy of e-books and plagiarism is an urgent need, on which the survival of authorship as a profession, the global development of culture and the flourishing of the most important branch of the creative economy of the countries of the world — the publishing industry — depends.