The Information Society. A Transformation Process toward Protecting Copyright

Abstract

This research reflects changes produced by the technological age, generating new spaces in the information society for diversity, pluralism, integration and innovation. However, copyright is an issue that has been little discussed in Venezuelan doctrine, although it is examined with great concern by Spanish law and the European Community. This problem has raised new, converging aspects. One of these, intellectual property, refers to copyright while the other approaches, from a different perspective, the need to protect the ownership of such rights due to their vulnerability occasioned by use of new information technologies. The study was conducted through an analysis of the information society and copyright protection. Conclusions are that both require positive regulation that determines the legal treatment to be followed in the user’s relationships with the use of information and rights pertaining to the authors, creating spaces that allow for developing a safe environment in which human rights, and specifically the right to information and the protection of cultural rights are respected.