Intellectual property rights in E-business environment: Paradigm shifts of legal and political measures

Abstract

The function of conventional rules and policies in protecting IP rights in the WEB against piracy and misapplications has become the core element of legal discussions. It is a hardcore task for IP Regimes to insure the security of information, researches, formulas and secrets that are considered private property, and at the same time to refrain from any interference with public domains. The failure to protect intellectual works legally is proposed to deter innovation, evolution of scientific theory and investments in research tools. The fact that scientific works, research products, formulas and technological innovations that may form trade secrets and have valuable applications in the business world are available in different forms through world-wide web and as protectable properties poses the necessity of a paradigm shift in policies directed toward intellectual property protection. As a theoretical foundation of our subject matter, we propose a model for legal policies in relation to the protection of IP rights in a cyber framework along with the outline of so-called paradigm shift in scientific humanities. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.