Copyright law and the internet

Copyright protection on the internet provides the original authors and artists the right to prevent others from copying or taking the original work and claiming it as their own.

Do copyright laws apply on the internet? The copyright laws apply on the internet just as they apply to more traditional media. Read more from our experts.

Unless the copyright owner has granted permission or an exception or limitation in the copyright law applies, activities like uploading, mailing, distributing, and transmitting whole (or even partial) copies of a copyrighted work over the internet may be a copyright infringement.