Direitos autorais na internet: aspectos polêmicos e relevantes

Abstract

It is about a study concerning the breaking of copyrights through the Internet. It occupies initially of the Internet, in order to facilitate, through the conceptualization of technician terms and the communication of the functioning of this net, the interpretation of this work for any medium reader. It reveals, through this study, the importance of the Internet and as it was responsible for cultural, social and technological transformations in our civilization. This net makes possible the interchange of information and archives between computer’s users from any place on earth. Inside of this "new world" happened by the Internet, new relations are built and new facts happens, which cannot be neglected by the Law operators. This is the subject of this paper, the relation between Internet and Law, focusing the right to the protection of intellectual workmanships and its concrete legalization, for the Copyrights Law (Law nº 9.610/98) and for the Software’s Law (Law nº 9.609/98). Being given, also, some copyrights knowledge. The present work looks for, mainly, infer in the operators of Law and Computer science the importance of the subject and the need to search measures to minimize the breaks that this right has suffered inside the "virtual world".