Propriedade intelectual: os direitos autorais diante dos progressos tecnológicos e da internet

Abstract

This work has for objective to show that the copyrights if transform parallel to the social changes brought by the technologies. The copyrights and the technology if relate closely. We will see that the last reason of the copyrights is to keep the balance between private interests of protection of the creation and social interests of access to the culture and diffusion of the knowledge. This balance, however, constantly is shaken when new forms of production and use of the fruits of the intellect appear, in the measure where the technologies change the social habits and facilitate uses of the workmanships in disagreement with the law. Currently, with the digital Internet and technologies, it is each more difficult time to remain control on the information transit and content enters the millions of users, since the costs of production and distribution of the products, in this environment, tend the zero. The new realities disclose that other ways of cultural production are emerging in the society, conflicting with interests of great titular companies of exclusive rights of commercialization of creative expressions. The classic rules of intellectual property and copyrights are being questioned, becoming necessary a revision of its principles, in order to guarantee a new balance between private interests of protection and stimulation to the creation; e social interests of access to the knowledge and information. The concept and important particularities of the copyright and slight knowledge will be boarded on copyrights and its relation with the technological progress and the Internet, in the generation of new alternative models of copyrights.